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"For every Pharoah there is a Moses."
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"Having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."
"I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me."
"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."
"But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don't live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name. You are laughing- no, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are forever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."
"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
"The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose."
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"Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means."
"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."
"Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity."
"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
"Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong."
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