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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Feeling Heart Heart Broken Marvelous Myself Thinking
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Aptitude Born Fact Faith Spirit Talent Yourself
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
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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Law Literature Medicine Myself Night Wife
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Break exchange Future Immortal Instrument Lost Prediction Strange Worth
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Illusion Imagination Truth Worth
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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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
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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Experience Feeling Himself Love Normal Representation State
Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Forever Important One Liner Poet Writing
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Death Difference Doctor Lawyer Perspective Rob Yourself
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Beautiful Character Dress Face People Thinking Way
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
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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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Curiosity Marriage Myself Observation People
It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Difficult Easy Life Philosopher
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Follow Friendship Man Stage Woman
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Clothes Himself Person Rate Soul Thinking
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself

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