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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

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I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

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Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

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I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

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Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

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He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

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When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

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I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

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I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

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The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

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I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

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