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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

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I'm the seagull. No, that's not it. I'm an actress. That's it.

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Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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

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