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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."
Politics
"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
Patriotism
"Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it."
Act
"We are the world."
World
"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity."
Humanity
"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."
Act
"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."
Thought
"For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence."
People
"News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news."
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"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder."
Politics
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