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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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