"But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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"Everything I know, I know because of love."
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"We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us."
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"Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it."
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"But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?"
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"Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know."
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""A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.""
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"Energy is based on love."
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
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"Life is fragile and absurd."
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"The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born."
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"How can one be well...when one suffers morally?"
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"But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe."
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"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
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"Anything is better than lies and deceit!"
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"Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed."
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"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion."
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"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
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