"He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work."
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"To contemplate is to look at shadows."
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"It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep."
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"A wedding is not house-keeping."
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"One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface."
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"The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people."
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"Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand."
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"Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?"
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"I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls"
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"There are no rules for felicity."
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"There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die."
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"The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts."
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"It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No."
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"That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity."
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"We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are."
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"...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act."
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"Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare."
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"A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open."
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"There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny."
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"We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all."
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