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

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

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Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.

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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

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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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