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To think too much is a disease.

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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

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The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

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Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

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A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

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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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... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.

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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

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I am crazy about mysterious things.

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God is the pain of the fear of death

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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

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One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms... [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself he is a man and not a piano-key!

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