Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

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The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

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