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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

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What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.

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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

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Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

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It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

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But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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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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There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

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Only entropy comes easy.

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People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

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I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

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