"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
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"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."
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"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
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"He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."
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"One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour."
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"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel."
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"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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"If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage."
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"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."
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"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."
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"When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa."
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"Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite."
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"I worked in the mechanical factories repairing cement trucks. The Cuban government wanted me to work in the university as a teacher in literature, but I declined because I wanted a more sense of the countryside."
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"Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land."
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"The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink."
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"There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy."
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