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“Do not confuse the reality you live in with the ideas you have in your head.”
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“For if the choice were given to any individual between his own destruction and that of the world, I do not need to say where it would land in the great majority.”
― The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
― The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics
“I think you must like history, as I liked it when I was your age, because it deals with living people and everything that concerns people, as many people as possible, all people in the world, in so far as they unite together in society and work and struggle and make a bid for a better life. All that can’t fail to please you more than anything else, isn’t that right?”
― Lettere dal carcere
― Lettere dal carcere
“A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized.”
― The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14
― The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Vol. 14
“You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.”
― The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
― The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
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