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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

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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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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy 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
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Angel Finding Goodness Hope Peace Sky Time
If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Life Love Myself Need Yourself
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Difference God People Philosophy Religious
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Life Music Nature Oneself Reality
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
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
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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Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
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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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Happiness Notice People Summer Winter
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
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Alone Mad Marriage Togetherness Woman
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
Women can’t forgive failure.
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Failure Forgiveness One Liner Woman
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Eyes God Goodness Judgment Success
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
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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Appreciation Fruit Learning Ourselves Time Tree
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
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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