If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.

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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.

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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

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If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.

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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.

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