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

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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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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them.

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Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

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

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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

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When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

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No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

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As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.

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Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

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Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

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How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

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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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Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

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It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

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In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom.

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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

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