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• Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the…
• Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely…
• I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see…
• All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
• Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.
• All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more…
• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart…
• Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years…
• The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
• When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization…
• There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,…
• One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

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