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I felt the beginning of a farewell rise in me like a sob. But there are too many of them for one to mourn them all.
Light (1919)
I think of myself, of all that I am. Myself, my home, my hours; the past, and the future, — it was going to be like the past!
Light (1919)
To understand life, and love it to its depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece; and each of us can hardly occupy his time so greatly as with one other; we have only one true neighbor down here.
Light (1919)
All that we can remember is almost nothing. Memory is greater than we are, but memory is living and mortal as well.
Light (1919)
It is not only a right; it is a virtue.
Light (1919)
We are in a great night of the world.
Light (1919)
What I am looking for is life.
Light (1919)
I am not slighting intellect; but life is common to us along with poorer living things than ourselves. He who kills an animal, however lowly it may be, unless there is necessity, is an assassin.
Light (1919)
I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man.
Light (1919)
Each country will be a moral force, and no longer a brutal force; while all brutal forces clash with themselves, all moral forces make mighty harmony together.
Light (1919)
In those former times we lived. Now we hardly live any more, since we have lived. They who we were are dead, for we are here.
Light (1919)
They do not know what they are doing.
Light (1919)
It is not true, it is not true.
Light (1919)
To live is to be happy to live.
Light (1919)
Once, after we had recalled to each other an enchanted summer evening, I said, "We loved each other," and she answered, "I remember."
Light (1919)
Ah, it seems that truth goes farther in all directions than one thought! We bend over the wrong that animals suffer, for them we wholly understand.
Light (1919)
All is madness. And there is no one who will dare to rise and say that all is not madness, and that the future does not so appear — as fatal and unchangeable as a memory.
Light (1919)
I place the Republic before France. France is ourselves. The Republic is ourselves and the others. The general welfare must be put much higher than national welfare, because it is much higher.
Light (1919)
We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands.
Light (1919)
The noblest and most fruitful work of the human intelligence is to make a clean sweep of every enforced idea — of advantages or meanings — and to go right through appearances in search of the eternal bases.
Light (1919)