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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Friendship
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In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Friendship
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You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.
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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.
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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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