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"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."
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"Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over."

"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."

"What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him."

"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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