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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.
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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
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Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
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Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
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The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
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To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
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