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“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.”
“Lunatics! Vain creatures! They don't believe in God, they don't believe in Christ! Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end up by eating one another, that's what I prophesy.”
“But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at allbut the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then no...”
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity' and the question of personal freedom are ...”
“My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is no reason to be troubled because we are absurd, is there? For we really are: we are absurd, fri...”
“It's life that matters, nothing but lifethe process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
“I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now a real child. Oh! you know nothing about it at all, I see.""And are you assured, at the same time, that you love Aglaya too?""Ye...”