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The truthful man is usually a liar.

Alfred Nobel

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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Food Ideas Lose Myself Philosophy Reality
Contentment is the only real wealth.
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Reality Satisfaction Wealth
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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Action Difficult Dreams Leaving Life Man Work
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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Brief Feeling Myself Writing
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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Deserve Myself Taste Worth
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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Goodness Ideas Myself Satisfaction
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Myself Personality
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Book Death Ink Life Man
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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Army Civilization Dynamite End Horror Nation Plant War
My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Home Myself Work
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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Attack Country Government Solution True
Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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Hide Hope Naked Nature True
It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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Expression Fair Justice Myself Nation Reward Worth
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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Imagination Justice
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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Force Heart Love Stomach
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
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Hell Place Proper Weapon

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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