"In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little."
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"It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch."
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"We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves."
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"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered"
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"But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion."
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"Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life."
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"Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters."
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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
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"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
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"God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves."
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"If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?"
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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
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"Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed."
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"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
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"The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture."
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"Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word, not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it."
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"The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice."
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"... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both."
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