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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.

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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Acceptance Better Fools Ourselves
You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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