"Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea."
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"Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us."
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"Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts."
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"Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself."
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"Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most."
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"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."
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"If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him."
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"Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies."
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"There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things."
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"Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!"
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"It's not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles."
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"With love one can live even without happiness."
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"The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen."
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"One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters."
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"To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
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"And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man."
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"Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force."
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"This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness."
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"The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."
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