"Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all."
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"The consciousness of life is higher than life."
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"Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously."
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"They were like two enemies in love with one another."
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"Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness"
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"Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories--until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then...then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!"
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"The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love."
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"Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others."
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"Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful."
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"Reason is the slave of passion."
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"The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners"
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"Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance."
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"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
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"Life [had] replaced logic."
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"Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own."
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"The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!"
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"What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love."
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"It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept."
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"I want to suffer so that I may love."
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"It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position."
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