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/ page 521 of 1205 /It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. History
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
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I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows...
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The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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As always art is the pulse of a nation.
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Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and p...
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... the one thing that everybody wants is to be free, to talk to eat to drink to walk to think, to please, to wish, and to do it now.
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The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
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There is no there there.
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There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud puddle.
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The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that every...
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