To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
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Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
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Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.
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All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether this truth serves or hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
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