Sadness is also a kind of defence.

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When I am not desperate, I am worthless.

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Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

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What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

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There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

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One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

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Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.

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From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

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