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When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

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Act as if you are, and you will become such.

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Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

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The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

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Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

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Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

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Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

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

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I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

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Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

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The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

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I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

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And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

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