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When people felt they had a right to seek out Christ before the torment, and in the fullness of his joy—it was too late; the cross had overcome Christ himself; it was Christ crucified that people continued to see and teach. And thus it is that religion came to plunge the world into gloom.

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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.

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We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

André Gide

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Born: November 22, 1869
Died: February 19, 1951 (aged 81)
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