Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

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No man is happy who does not think himself so. ― Marcus Aurelius

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ― George Bernard Shaw

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend. ― Mike Tyson

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There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.

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I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun. ― Robert Rauschenberg

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Man is what he believes.

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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