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Words are loaded pistols
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die
To eat is to appropriate by destruction
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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