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To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mat...more

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The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good...more

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the wo...more

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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to r...more

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die...more

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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

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What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbe...more

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I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done...more

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Real life is to most men a long second best a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human sel...more