"To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion."
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"Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying."
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"No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life."
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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
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"The act of love is a confession."
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"The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die."
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"As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches."
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"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
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"Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema."
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"Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable."
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"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."
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"Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion."
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"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
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"When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone."
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"What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way."
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"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."
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"Art and revolt will die only with the last man."
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"Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull."
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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"Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are."
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