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“What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.”

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“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire”

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“The truth is lived, not taught.”

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“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

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“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.”

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“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

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“It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.”

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“Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.”

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“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”

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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”

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“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness”

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