"A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart."
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"I am crazy about mysterious things."
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"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare."
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"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"
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"My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?"
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"In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin."
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"I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since."
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"Every man needs a place to go to."
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"But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness."
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"Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution."
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"There is not a thing that is more positive than bread."
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"I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it."
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"We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep."
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"There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing."
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"How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?"
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"Beauty will save the world"
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"It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated."
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"What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet."
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"...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them."
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"And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn."
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