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

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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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