"It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish."
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"In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring."
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"Dreaming is to think by moonlight by the light of an inner moon."
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"It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be."
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"Style is to forget all styles."
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"If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room."
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"Talent is like money; you don't have to have some to talk about it."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
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"Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes."
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"Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?"
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"It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes."
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought."
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"It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody."
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"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."
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"The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper."
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"The less I understand life, the more I live it!"
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"Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent."
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"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire."
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"In morals, always do as others do; in art, never."
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