To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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