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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

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I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

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Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

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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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Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

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But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

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- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.

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Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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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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