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"The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying."
"Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you."
"If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen."
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
"Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything."
"There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?"
"The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul."
"Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice."
"She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age."
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."
"A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals."
"But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"Only through suffering can we find ourselves."
"The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight."
"Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story."
"I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!"
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
"The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence"
"I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus."