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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
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A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
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When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
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Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.
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