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At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.


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I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.



Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.



It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.



I see too deep and too much.

I see too deep and too much.



Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.



whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.



The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.



Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.



There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.



Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.





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