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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.

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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

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In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

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Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

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