Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad.
("War and Peace")
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There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
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Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.
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