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""Everything is permitted" or "All is lawful.""

""You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman.""

"A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream?"

"A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart."

"A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense."

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying-to others and to yourself."

"Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others."

"Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it - that is what you must do."

"Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it -- that is what you must do."

"Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions--it's like a dream."