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30 Humanist Quotes

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Create beauty Excite Sustenance Soul
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Love Stammers Stutters Best
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Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

My belly Noble Heart
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe
Love beauty Shadow God
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Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Speech Second possession Soul World
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Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

Earth Bless me Fecund Sacred
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

The poet Love Words Knot
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Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Writing Cheer me Soothe Spirit
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

Soul Body Artist People
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
Joy Being healthy Beauty
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Many things Child Bones Formed
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In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Secret Night Prayer Grows
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All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

All night Trembled Death Life
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My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

My grief Smile My son
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
Lost Carrying Childhood Favorite flower
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For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Religiosity Remembrance Soul
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Radiance My enthusiasms Poor courtyard
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I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Faithful joy Lost Thorn Stolen
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Dusk I feel my heart melting in the mildness like candles: my veins are slow oil and not wine, and I feel my life fleeing hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
Dusk Heart Candles Veins
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Female mind The brain An organ Of sex
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Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

Death Your imagination Visualize A world
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When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

All usefulness Is over Is assured An unavoidable
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But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way,it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Say what I feel A relief The effort
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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Sick society Have difficulty Demonstrating A healthy
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Swallow Follow Old doctrine New propaganda
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

Man's honor Kill A woman Satisfy it
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Through it,literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Through it Literature We know The past
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Attain happiness Another world Believe something Secure it
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Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body

Woman Should stand Beside man Comrade
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But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.

People Utterly ignorant Believe anything
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