It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream � individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization.

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Being beautiful in itself, youth needs no transfiguration: in its abundance of strong life it is drawn to the tragic, and is happy to let melancholy suck sweetly from its still inexperienced bloom, and the very same phenomenon accounts for the readiness of young people to face danger and reach out a fraternal hand to all spiritual suffering.

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Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone�s destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

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There�s an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can�t be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can�t add to it.

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But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with pitying eyes can really shake you.

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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one�s own existence.

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But love truly becomes love only when, no longer an embryo developing painfully in the darkness of the body, it ventures to confess itself with lips and breath. However hard it tries to remain a chrysalis, a time comes when the intricate tissue of the cocoon tears, and out it falls, dropping from the heights to the farthest depths, falling with redoubled force into the startled heart.

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Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.

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A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them.

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Maybe everything�s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you�ll discover your hidden resources.

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