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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

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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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Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

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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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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

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He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

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What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

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Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

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Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

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