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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
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.
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.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
The soul is healed by being with children.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.