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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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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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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The soul is healed by being with children.

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

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

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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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