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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as…
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.…
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks…
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to…
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,…
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect…
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.…
— Etty Hillesum
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
— Oscar Wilde
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Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best…
— Margaret Weis
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Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame…
— Erich Fromm
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