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We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
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The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
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Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
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The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and…
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with…
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Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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Where there is love, there is God also.
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There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.
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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
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You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for…
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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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It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could…
— Max Beckmann
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Today, when death and old age are increasingly concealed behind euphemisms and comforting baby talk, and life is threatened with being smothered…
— Martin Esslin
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy…
— Karl Shapiro
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What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when…
— Leo Tolstoy
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That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.
— Robert Walser
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About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.…
— Carl Jung
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I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's…
— Charles Bukowski
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You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you…
— Ayn Rand
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the…
— Steven Weber
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