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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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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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

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

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Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.

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Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.

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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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

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