Happiness is in your ability to love others.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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