Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNeither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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