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"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."
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"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
"Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost."
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"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them."
"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison."
"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."
"A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing."
"Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary."
"The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil."
"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility."
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