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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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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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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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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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