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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

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Everything passes, only truth remains.

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Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

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You can be sincere and still be stupid.

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In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

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If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: "I love you," and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!

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The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

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Be the sun and all will see you.

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What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

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Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

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You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

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

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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

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