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All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers....more

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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your m...more

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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives but on balance life is suffering and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwis...more

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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes v...more

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Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its shar...more

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For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt, the boredom, and the horribl...more

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He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of...more

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This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

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Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die vio...more