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If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

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Music is love in search of a voice.

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Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

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Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

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Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

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Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

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No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

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I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

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In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

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A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.

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The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

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We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

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When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

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