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If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
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stones are hard everywhere.
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They were the only members of their family, and they were both humble, crushed, and thrust aside by life; they were united in sadness and tenderness by a bond of mutual pity and common suffering, borne in secret. With the Kraffts--robust, noisy, brutal, solidly built for living, and living joyously--these two weak, kindly creatures, out of their setting, so to speak, outside life, understood and pitied each other without ever saying anythin..
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But, uncle, isn't it possible to make other songs, new songs?" "Why make them? There are enough for everything. There are songs for when you are sad, and for when you are gay; for when you are weary, and for when you are thinking of home; for when you despise yourself, because you have been a vile sinner, a worm upon the earth; for when you want to weep, because people have not been kind to you; and for when your heart is glad because the w..
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I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
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One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
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