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- A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he…
- What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
- At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
- The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
- If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
- At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire…
- In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
- My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,…
- Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your…
- 'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the…
- There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
- From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.
- One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say…
- Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith…
- And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into…
- Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
- He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that…
- I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are…
- But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of…
- Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
- There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
- I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of…
- There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any…
- Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient…
- This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it…
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