If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.

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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

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It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

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The soul is healed by being with children.

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Money is coined liberty.

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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

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