"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
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"For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers."
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"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."
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"It is easier to kill what we do not know."
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"It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."
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"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."
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"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."
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"I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude."
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"In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips."
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"But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all."
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"Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture."
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"One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know."
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"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
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"Liberty is the right not to lie."
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"There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life."
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"Women are all we know of paradise on this earth."
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"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children."
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"I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back."
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"Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."
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"When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace."
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