"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live."
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
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"One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
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"I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is."
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"The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability."
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"There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me."
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"If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all."
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"The secret of theory is that truth does not exist."
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"Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on"
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"Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?"
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"Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine."
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"Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils."
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."
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"Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion."
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"You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection."
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"To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth."
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"A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take."
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"What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us."
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