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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

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

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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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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

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

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Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

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It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

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If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

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Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.

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Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

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I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

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But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.

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I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

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Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

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