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Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

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...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

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God gave the day, God gave the strength.

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Life did not stop, and one had to live.

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The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.

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God is the same everywhere.

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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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