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My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

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I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

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I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

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Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.

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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

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It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

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Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

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

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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

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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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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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