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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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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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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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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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