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| A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. |
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| A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. |
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| A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas |
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| A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts |
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| A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. |
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| A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. |
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| A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. |
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| An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it |
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| Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. |
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| Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless. |
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| God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly |
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| God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. |
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| God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through |
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| History is the science of things which are not repeated. |
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| History is the science of what never happens twice. |
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| In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well |
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| Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. |
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| Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. |
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