When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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