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What I do know now, and didn't know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we've done have run their course, it's the good we did that can save us.
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The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
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Exactly-merde and bad food, c'est l'amour.
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It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can fo..
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A wise man once told me - he's a Muslim, by the way - that he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Jew than he does with a fanatic from his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic from his own religio. In fact, he has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic from his own religion.
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Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
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They are not true Marxist, nor true Leninist. The Russians are imperialists.
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Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky. Somewhere
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News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.' We
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Ma devi amare i gatti! In un mondo perfetto tutti sarebbero come i gatti alle due del pomeriggio
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When you know you're going to die, there's no comfort in cleverness. Genius is vain, and cleverness is hollow, at the end.
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You can't serve God with a gun.
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Gli atti piu perfidi dei nostri simili colpiscono sempre la parte di noi che desidera amare il mondo. E quando subiamo una violazione, una piccola parte della vergogna che proviamo e quella di appartenere alla razza umana.
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There is no man, and no place, without war.
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No matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love.
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God help us. God forgive us. We live on.
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kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white
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I sighed, sure in my own mind that the new war would change nothing: that wars can't really change things. It's peace that makes the deepest cuts, I thought.
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I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot. And this boiling resentment, you see, this anger, is w..
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Love makes men big, and hate makes them small.
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Sometimes the worst thing you can do to a woman is to love her.
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Crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength.
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Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
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In the beginning we feared everything - animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky - everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No one knows why anyone does anything. No one tells the truth. No one is happy. No one is safe.
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Every city has a village in its heart. You will never understand the city, unless you first understand the village.
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There's no such thing as forever. I don't know why we use the word.
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I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.
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E la scelta che fai, odio o perdono, puo diventare la storia della tua vita
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All political systems favour the powerful rich over the defenceless poor.
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The rich in any country, and any system, always got the best justice money could buy.
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There is no believing in God. We either know God, or we do not.
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God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.
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Men lie, to themselves more than to others, and to the others more often than they tell the truth.
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I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.
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Some women cry easily. The tears fall as gently as fragrant raindrops in a sun-shower, and leave the face clear and clean and almost radiant. Other women cry hard, and all the loveliness in them collapses in the agony of it.
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They're (kids) so... innocent. Except that they're not. They know exactly what they want, and they don't stop till they get it.
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People say that money is the root of all evil. But it's not true. It's the other way round. Money isn't the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There's no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there's no clean way to make it. If you get paid in money, somebody, somewhere is suffering for it.
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If you make your heart into a weapon, you always end up using it on yourself.
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A man has to respect himself bofore he can respect anyone else.
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A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him, I guess. Or maybe when he sees the things he wishes he had in himself.
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Una volta un uomo saggio - un musulmano, badate bene - mi ha detto di sentirsi piu vicino a un ebreo, a un cristiano, a un buddhista o persino a un ateo razionale e ragionevole che a un fanatico della sua stessa religione. E sono d'accordo con Winston Churchill, secondo il quale un fanatico e una persona che non cambia opinione e non e capace di cambiare argomento
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La sofferenza non e necessariamente un segno di debolezza; con uno sforzo di volonta e possibile sopportarla: la forza di volonta nasce da un severo autocontrollo, che e di per se una forma di sofferenza volontaria
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The choices we make are branches in the tree of possibility.
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Love unlived is a sin against life, and mourning is one of the ways we love.
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