"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them."
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"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."
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"I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."
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"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
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"The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste."
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"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"
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"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
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"Ideas are fatal to caste."
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"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
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"Light is the symbol of truth."
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"Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe."
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"Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory."
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"Puns are the highest form of literature."
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"An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
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"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
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"The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more."
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"Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny."
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