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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

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A holy spirit lives within you.

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Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

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Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

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I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

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So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

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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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I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

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I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

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it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

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… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

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Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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