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| A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd. |
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| A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. |
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| Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. |
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| Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. |
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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 sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals. |
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| At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. |
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| Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. |
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| Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it |
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| Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. |
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| Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight in order to avoid this? Or are you not terrified by it? I have seen men in real life who so long deceived others that at last their true nature could not reveal itself;... In every man there is something which to a certain degree prevents him from becoming perfectly transparent to himself; and this may be the case in so high a degree, he may be so inexplicably woven into relationships of life which extend far beyond himself that he almost cannot reveal himself. But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all. |
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| Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy. |
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| During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. |
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| Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. |
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| Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. |
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| Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |
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| Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. |
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