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" Boredom: the desire for desires. "

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" All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. "

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" A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. "

" The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. "

" Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. "

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" Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. "

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" Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. "

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