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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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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The soul is healed by being with children.

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

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

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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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