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He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
“Love is a feeling validated by series of kind actions. When the initial euphoria of love wanes, the series of kind actions validates the love.”
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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
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“...I learned that love between two people will last as long as one of them is around to feel it.”
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“Since all contemporary action leads to murder, direct or indirect, we cannot act until we know whether, and why, we have the right to kill.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel
“I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel
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