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- A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he…
- For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if…
- Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has…
- But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a…
- At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire…
- My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts,…
- An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
- Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to…
- It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during…
- Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would…
- If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life…
- There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any…
- Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up
- And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of…
- You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
- Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do…
- Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all,…
- Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.
- I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would…
- That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats…
- I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
- Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
- Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends…
- All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was…
- Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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