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

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

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

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