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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

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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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People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

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The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

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

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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

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

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You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

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Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.

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If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

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While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.

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Even in Siberia there is happiness.

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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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I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.

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