"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart."
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"Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray."
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"Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man."
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"The earth is a great piece of stupidity."
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"In the domain of art there is no light without heat."
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"In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!"
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"To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie."
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"Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most."
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"Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
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"I was dying when you came."
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"During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege."
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"The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness."
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"The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young."
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"A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards."
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"Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right."
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"Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date."
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"In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul."
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"In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes."
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"Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never."
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