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

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

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‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

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I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

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There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

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What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

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Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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I want to suffer so that I may love.

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Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

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Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

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One can fall in love and still hate.

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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

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But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!

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He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

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And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

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It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

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All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

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