"Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!"
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"Love life more than the meaning of it?"
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"...chance may do anything."
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"How good life is when one does something good and just!"
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"I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own."
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"I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity."
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"You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall."
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"God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?"
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"You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you."
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"What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people."
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"To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving."
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"If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness"
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"What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
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"At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours."
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"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side."
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"It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky."
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"If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground."
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"In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged."
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"In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality."
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"The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all."
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