"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
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"To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business."
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"Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up."
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"Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond."
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"People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul"
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"The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose."
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"Act as if you are, and you will become such."
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"A human can be healthy without killing animals for food."
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"If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God."
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"I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment."
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"Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself."
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"Spring is the time of plans and projects."
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"The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people."
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"We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
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"Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable."
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"In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty."
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"Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us."
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"People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them."
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"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
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"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
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