"One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived."
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"Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment."
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"All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell."
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"A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not."
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"One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it."
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"I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now."
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"Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live."
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"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."
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"Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice."
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"You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does."
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"Writing does not resurrect. It buries."
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"If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles."
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"Does my eye look okay to you?"
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"God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man."
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"When I heard that Hitler had problems with flatulence, it's funny. What - does that make him a funny man? No. It means he had funny moments when his rear end was speaking louder than his mouth."
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"He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice."
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"The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place."
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"Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end."
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"Are there no American citizens sympathizing with whiteguard emigres who conduct propaganda in favor of capitalism, against the Soviets? Then what does the point involve? The point is not to assist these persons, not to finance their activities. The point is that officials of both countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of the other country."
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"To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up."
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