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It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

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Life is fragile and absurd.

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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

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The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

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Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

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The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

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There are such repulsive faces in the world.

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It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

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You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

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To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

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But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

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To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts" "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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