"Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
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"I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared."
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"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
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"They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?"
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"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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"Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence."
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"I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril."
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
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"If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love"
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"The world will be saved by beauty."
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"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."
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"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
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"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
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"I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."
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"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."
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"If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning."
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"You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
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"My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so."
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"The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder."
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"From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse."
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