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"God's absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy."
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"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
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"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"I dote on his very absence."
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"I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed."
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"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
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"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
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"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
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"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"
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"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
Action
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
Artist
"Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater."
First
"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
History
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
Companionship
"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
Being
"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
Power
"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
Accident
"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
Accident
"One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking."
Being
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