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"So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair."
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"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."
"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
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"Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape."
"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."
"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."
"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
"When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."
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