"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
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"I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease."
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"I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness."
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"a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing."
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"To cook your hare you must first catch it."
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"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
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"They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."
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"We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?"
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"Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest."
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"For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance."
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"In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning."
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"All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels."
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"Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life."
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"I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer."
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"If not reason, then the devil."
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"There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it."
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"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison."
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"Above all, do not lie to yourself."
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"There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas."
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"Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?"
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