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

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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

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

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

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