"Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid."
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"Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
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"I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye."
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."
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"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
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"Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms."
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
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"But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!"
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"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
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"To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism."
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"He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended."
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"Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart."
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"I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God."
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"Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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"In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love."
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"If there is no God, then I am God."
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"I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well."
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"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship."
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"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."
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