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The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

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Boredom: the desire for desires.

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A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

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

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History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

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Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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Honest work is much better than a mansion.

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Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

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The most important time is Now

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The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

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There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

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Physical violence is the basis of authority.

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If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

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