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Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

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I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affl...

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This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic a...

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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an...

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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last se...

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The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

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Max PlanckThe Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how ...

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The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One...

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Oliver SacksThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a b...

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I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which...

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