"Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him."
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"The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God."
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"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
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"May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"
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"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."
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"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."
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"Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life."
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself."
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"If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself."
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"They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."
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"A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is."
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"Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it."
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"Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man."
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"If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible."
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"Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.""
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"Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well."
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"I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!"
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"... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science."
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"People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact."
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"Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification."
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