"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
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"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
"For darkness restores what light cannot repair."
"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed."
"Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin."
"Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath."
"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"
"Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox"."
"All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle."
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
"When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it."
"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it."
"Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast."
"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering"
"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."
"I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils."
"All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul."
"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."