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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

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It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

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The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

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My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

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Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

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Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

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Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

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To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

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In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

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Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

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