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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.

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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
Brevity – the sister of talent.
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One Liner Talent
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Feeling Furniture Hard Pieces World
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
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
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Day End Expectation Myself Student
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Difference God People Philosophy Religious
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
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
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
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Knowledge Practice Value
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
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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Body Freedom Health Holy Human Intelligence Manifestation Talent Violence

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