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- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…
- Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by…
- It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for…
- Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.
- I do not see the world at all; I invent it.
- All that you are seeking is also seeking you
- I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
- This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have…
- All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could…
- There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from…
- Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated
- Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all…
- My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat…
- So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
- I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
- By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
- Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
- We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
- Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
- The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right,…
- The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union…
- I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in…
- Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.
- I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and…
- All language is but a poor translation.
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle