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• We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
• The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
• Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
• The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and…
• In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with…
• Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
• Where there is love, there is God also.
• There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
• To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
• You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for…
• Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is…

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