And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

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