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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
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If you can do it then why do it?
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
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We are always the same age inside.
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Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
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Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
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Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
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Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers.
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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
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