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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Nov 07, 2020
When we are not sure, we are alive.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure too is a form of death.
- Abandoned
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Habitual
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
- Good Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
- Often
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- Nov 07, 2020
A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
- Cuckoo
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
- Housewife
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020