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• Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
• I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve....
• I never started from ideas but always from character.
• You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them…
• Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself...
• That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
• I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.
• Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole…
• I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.
• That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what…
• The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.
• Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

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