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There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary…
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Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his…
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak…
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as…
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The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful…
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be…
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the…
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God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set…
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Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent…
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep…
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Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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