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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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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, ...more

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake ...more

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Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

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In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, t...more

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To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...more

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...more

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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

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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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it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.