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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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Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people - to commit the mos...more

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It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcel...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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...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

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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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One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must somehow go on living the best I can, with...more

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Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

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There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his ele...more

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Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

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We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking on...more

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Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in ...more