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“It is no sin against love to exalt people even to the level of God, on the contrary, it is an expression of it. What we must never do is humiliate people. Better to address someone as ‘my angel’ than ‘you fool’, even if men are more like fools that they are angels.”

“Life is tough for all of us. In my serious moments, I am struck by the thought that people are being illogical when they are repelled by death. So far as my understanding goes, life consists exclusively of horrors, squabbles and banalities, sometimes all at once and sometimes one after the other”