Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

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Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

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It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

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Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

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There is no forgiveness in nature.

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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

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Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

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