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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

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Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived -forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never beco

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the quest

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourishe

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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

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