“Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?”
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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