"If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals."
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"If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him."
"If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst."
"If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music."
"If we don't play God, who will?"
"If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere; it's up to you, New York, New York."
"If you want to be happy, be happy."
"If I look back I am lost."
"When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see."
"If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)"
"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em... then beat 'em."
"If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow."
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."
"I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself."
"The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated."
"You couldn't have it if you DID want it."
"Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness."
"There can be no peace if the occupation continues."
"If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead."
"If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion."