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" Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. "

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" Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. "

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" In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. "

" Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. "

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" We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. "

" To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. "

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