Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

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Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.

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Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

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I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.

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And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

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An unshared happiness is not happiness.

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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

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In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

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