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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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Personal Development
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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Personal Development
"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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Personal Development
"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
Truth
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
Family
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
Power
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
Love
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Resilience
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
Truth
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
Life
"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
Generosity
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
Faith
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
Death
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