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One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments. It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.