To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.


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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the co...
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair t...
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Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore ...
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It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most signifi...
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How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb crea...
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sle...
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
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Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teachers that lo...
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale....
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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravag...
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The self is only that which it is in the process of becoming.
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but n...
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle...
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when ...
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonde...
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Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so l...
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, i...
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to pa...
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because...
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in sea...
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be mo...
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is...
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He...
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Purity of heart is to will one thing.
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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic...
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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go o...
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There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sle...
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there i...
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Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life...
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love fo...
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Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's stru...
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies ...
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the in...
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