"And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith."
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"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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"to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God."
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"The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality."
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"The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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"We live as if we were unaware of our impending destruction"
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"Be that self which one truly is."
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"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
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"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke."
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"The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live."
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"All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility."
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"Future is everything that past has forgotten."
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"For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love."
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"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die."
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"There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc."
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"On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is."
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"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love."
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"I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night."
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"The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion."
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