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"The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not."
"Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict."
"To be able to forget means sanity."
"Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them."
"We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today"
"The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself."
"A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity."
"If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy."
"He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ."
"It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious."
"A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself."
"The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it."
"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me."
"Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God."
"I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to."
"Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there."
"What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child."
"The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance."
"SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE."
"I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?"
