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“Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.”

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War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

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I have used the words and expressions which my experiences from Minsk to Kharkov to the Don suggested to me. But I should have…

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“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs…

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The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

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“As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim…

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No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

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“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

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I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent…

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Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

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“A day came when I should have died, and after than nothing seemed very important, so I stayed as I am, without regret separated…

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“What happened next? I retain nothing from those terrible minutes except indistinct memories which flash into my mind with sudden brutality, like apparitions, among…

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“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be…

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Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't…

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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.

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I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

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It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

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Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,…

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Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas…

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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

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Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

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