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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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Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative…
— Waverley Root
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It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it…
— Unknown Author
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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the…
— Christopher Lasch
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He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any…
— Martin Amis
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If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history,…
— Joseph Goebbels
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I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
— Jules Verne
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I am going to kill you," he hissed. She gulped. "Don't you want to lecture me first?" He stared at her with…
— Julia Quinn
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