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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

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I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

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A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.

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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

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To advise is not to compel.

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.

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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

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I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

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It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

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