"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate."
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"Teaching is the royal road to learning."
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"I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful."
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"I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all."
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"With enough libraries, all content is free."
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"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
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"Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have."
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"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."
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"Knowledge of what you love somehow comes to you; you don’t have to read nor analyze nor study. If you love a thing enough, knowledge of it seeps into you, with particulars more real than any chart can furnish."
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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults"
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"It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable."
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"The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility."
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"It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone."
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"At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy."
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"Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells."
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"Justice is a terrible but necessary thing."
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"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?"
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"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one."
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"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."
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"To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other."
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