"Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know."
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"Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face."
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"None will improve your lot If you yourself do not."
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"If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors."
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"There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers."
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"Why be a man when you can be a success?"
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"The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar."
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"General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think."
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"Life is short and so is money."
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"Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest."
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"Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of."
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"In the contradiction lies the hope."
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"Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong."
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"People who understand everything get no stories."
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"I don't trust him. We're friends."
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"Poverty makes you sad as well as wise."
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"Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer."
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"When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up."
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"The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom."
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"Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree. Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other's faces."
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