"In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic."
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"And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy."
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"The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation."
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"I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change."
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"Our body is a machine for living."
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"When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time"
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"Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits."
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"We're asleep until we love."
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"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."
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"In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom."
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"Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!"
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"People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times."
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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
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"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
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"Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it."
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"Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed."
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"Each time of life has its own kind of love."
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"He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken."
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"For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable."
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"Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired."
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