"You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that."
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"If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."
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"It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion."
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"I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself."
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"There are as many loves as there are hearts."
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"When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now.""
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"She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was."
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"I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love."
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"My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me."
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"As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields."
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"In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning."
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"Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling."
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"The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience."
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"There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."
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"The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless."
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"How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it."
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"To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it."
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"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
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"He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women."
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"A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body."
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