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"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
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"To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself."
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"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."
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Personal Development
"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
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Personal Development
"Wisdom begins in knowing the self."
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Personal Development
"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."
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"It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy."
History
"I rebel, therefore I exist."
Identity
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
Diplomacy
"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
Art
"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
Politics
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest - whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories - comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
Philosophy
"Tarrou had "lost the match," as he put it. But what had he, Rieux, won? No more than the experience of having known plague and remembering it, of having known friendship and remembering it, of knowing affection and being destined one day to remember it. So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have called that winning the match."
Life
"There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart."
Hope
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
Life
"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me."
Belief
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