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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee…
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your…
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those…
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,…
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what…
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental…
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that…
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean…
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One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over…
— Jacques Monod
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Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
— Eric Hoffer
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In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we…
— Karl Rahner
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on…
— Cesare Pavese
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That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never…
— Marianne Williamson
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