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The United States is evil.
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Evil
States
United States
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Great ideas are not charitable.
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Charitable
Great Idea
Ideas
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Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.
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Atheism
Disease
Mankind
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Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
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Ink
White
Writing
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We like someone because. We love someone although.
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Love
Love Someone
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It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
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Creativity
Unhappy
World
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The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.
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Evil
United States
World
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Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
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Courage
Smile
Affection
Ends
Habit
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It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.
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I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
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Ocean
Ideas
Made
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We have understood nothing of life until we have understood that it is one vast confusion.
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Confusion
Understood
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It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.
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Chance
Individual
Various
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There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.
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Inspiring
Heart
Soul
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Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
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Men
Triumph
World
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A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.
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Dream
Men
Thinking
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One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
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Art
Unhappy
World
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Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.
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Men
Beautiful
Stupid
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... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.
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May
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A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.
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Humanity
Race
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