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"Damn! What did Ansermet, that most faithful friend, know about Stravinsky's poverty of heart? What did he, that most devoted friend, know about Stravinsky's capacity to love? And where did he get his utter certainty that the heart is ethically superior to the brain? Are not vile acts committed as often with the heart's help as without it? Can't fanatics, with their bloody hands, boast of a high degree of "affective activity"? Will we ever be done with this imbecile sentimental Inquisition, the heart's Reign of Terror?"
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."
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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."
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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."
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"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"
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"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."
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"The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred."
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"No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?"
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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters."
Death

"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."
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"A man is responsible for his ignorance."
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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."
Loss

"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies."
Truth

"Happiness is the longing for repetition."
Happiness

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
Imagination

"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."
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"What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure."
Ethics
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