Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.

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A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

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Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

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Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

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One never gets to know a person's character better than by watching his behavior during decisive moments. It is always only danger which forces the most deeply hidden strengths and abilities of a human being to come forth.

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Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

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He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

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Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

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