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Solitude is independence.

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

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To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

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Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

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If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

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Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

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There is a noble and a base side to every history.

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All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

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Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.

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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

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I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

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The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

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There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

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Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

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