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

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

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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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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Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

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

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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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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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