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"Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's honour. One lies all one's life long, even, especially, perhaps only, to those who love one. For they alone make us fear for our pleasure and desire their esteem."
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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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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
Time
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
Grief
"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
Memory
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Wisdom
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
Work
"In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things."
Love
"I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you."
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"Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty."
Ethics
"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
Lifestyle
"The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism, they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves."
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