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In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

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We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

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You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

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If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.

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This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!

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It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

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My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

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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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