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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

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Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

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Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.

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An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

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I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!

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If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!

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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.

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If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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