"Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!"
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"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."
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"Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market."
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"'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby."
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"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china."
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"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"
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"The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling."
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"How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?"
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"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true."
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"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
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"If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke."
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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."
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"Every spoken word arouses our self-will."
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"What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?"
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