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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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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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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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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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