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Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

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A meadow is nothing but a field of suffering. Every second some creature is dying in the gorgeous green expanse, ants eat wriggling earthworms, birds ...more

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Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability for ...more

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Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

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I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bears no resemblance to cancer or...more

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Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that jo...more

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People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'o...more

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A person's destiny often ends before his death.

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Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone,...more

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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re co...more

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamen...more

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There is no particular merit in being nice to one's fellow man... We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is a re...more