"Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget."
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"Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength."
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"she smiled at him, and at her own fears."
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"If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job."
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"The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank."
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"There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive."
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"Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!"
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"You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!"
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"The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience."
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"If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present."
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"Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life."
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"It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice."
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"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
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"I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts."
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"Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?"
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"Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life."
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"It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create."
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"If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect."
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"I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people."
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"The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery."
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