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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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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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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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