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

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Love those you hate you.

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The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if all that was good in me had hidden itself...more

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He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have t...more

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There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

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Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

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Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through wh...more

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Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important pe...more

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Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.

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You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not k...more

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Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limit...more

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Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

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Life did not stop, and one had to live.