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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

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Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

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Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

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Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

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One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

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To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

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If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

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Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

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There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

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In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

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I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

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My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

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And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

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Hell is the inability to love.

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