Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

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Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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