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"A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing."
"Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same."
"The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity ."
"The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth."
"Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray."
"How does one cure the soul? Through the senses"
"I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
"I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?"
"Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent."
"I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond."
"True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love."
"For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not."
"...the infallible man does not exist."
"When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable."
"Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not."
"As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!"
"The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily."
"Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does."
"Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive."
"As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be."
