The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
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The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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