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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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Then, already, it had brought to his mind the silence brooding over beds in which he had let men die. There as here it was the same solemn pause, the ...more

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I know positively… that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth, is free from it. And I know, too, that we must keep endless wat...more

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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the ...more

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...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might again...more

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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and ...more

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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

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Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, you...more

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At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit o...more

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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

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[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a...more

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The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have ne...more