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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom
Words are loaded pistols
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die
To eat is to appropriate by destruction
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life
Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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