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God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh...more

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I sometimes try to imagine what future historians will say about us. They'll be able to sum up modern man in a single sentence: he fornicated and read...more

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Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved,...more

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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming l...more

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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

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In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significan...more

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This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge,...more

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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or ...more

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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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I have realized that we all have plague, and I have lost my peace. And today I am still trying to find it; still trying to understand all those others...more

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How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it.

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Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light beg...more

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In the long run one gets used to anything.

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There is not love of life without despair about life.