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To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...more

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No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather A...more

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...more

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I not had a dim hope of finding Him. I live really...more

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Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time...more

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But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of...more

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When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hosti...more

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There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had b...more

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Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actio...more

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And where love ends, hate begins

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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in l...more

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And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.