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The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
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Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
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It's curious and ridiculous how much the gaze of a prudish and painfully chaste man touched by love can sometimes express and that precisely at a moment when the man would of course sooner be glad to fall through the earth than to express anything with a word or a look.
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself.
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They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
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If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
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The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.
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I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.
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Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.
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Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.
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Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
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Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!
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I utter what you would not dare think.
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God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?
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Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
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She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
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I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.
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I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.