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• All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
• Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it…
• The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch…
• His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
• Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes…
• There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.
• Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
• In five minutes the earth would be a desert, and you cling to books.
• One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
• A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop…
• There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him,…

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