"Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make."
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"No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it."
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"Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle."
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"Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books."
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
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"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of water, still preserving my faith."
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"It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand."
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"You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward."
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"If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin."
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"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die."
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"Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it."
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"The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth."
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"It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it."
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"Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions."
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"Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term."
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"Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth."
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"What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?"
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"I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all."
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"A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it."
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"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
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