“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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