"Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid."
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"After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?."
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"If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly."
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"Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation."
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"I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night."
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"One who believes all of a book would be better off without books"
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"Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind."
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"If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another."
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"If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans."
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"Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love."
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"It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true."
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"Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence."
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"How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error."
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"I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'."
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"How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible."
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"If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless."
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"I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out."
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"If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal."
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"I will walk where my own nature would be leading."
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"We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money."
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