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Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

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There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.

One sees the world's evil accurately only by exaggerating it.

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My anger is the effervescence of my pity.

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You are always on the right side when you are with those who suffer persecution and injustice.

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The exercise of freedom consists in stripping oneself of one's own will.

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