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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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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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