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View AuthorWhen one gets old, they prefer rereading to reading.
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View AuthorIt is the innocent and not the wise who solve difficult issues.
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View AuthorLiterature cannot reflect all the darkness of life. The main reason is that literature chooses, and life does not.
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View AuthorIn old age, all you do is repeat yourself.
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View AuthorThe one who succeeds is always likable.
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View AuthorI believe that people, when they are intelligent and completely normal, should not pretend to be strange and odd, because it becomes absurd and contrived.
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View AuthorFalsehood and dissimulation are useful within social life. I have not possessed this condition, and I believe that not having it has harmed me more than anything else. Also, not having solemnity has slightly harmed me when dealing with both acquaintances and strangers.
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View AuthorThe music is an art that is beyond the bounds of reason; the same can be said about whether it is beneath or above it.
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View AuthorThe world, for us, is representation, as Schopenhauer said; it is not an absolute reality, but a reflection of essential ideas.
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View AuthorThe people have so little imagination that they eagerly collect from each other these small adornments of conversation. They are like ragpickers or collectors of clichés.
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View AuthorIf you ever discover any law, be prudent and do not try to apply it. You have discovered the law... that is enough. Because if this law is physical and you try to apply it to a machine, you will stumble upon brute matter; and if it is a social law, you will stumble upon the brutality of men.
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View AuthorTruly, I don't know if rightfully or not, I am not amazed by ingenuity, because it is evident that there are many ingenious men in the world. Nor am I astonished by people with memory, no matter how great and wondrous it may be, or by calculators; what amazes me the most is kindness, and I say this without the slightest hint of hypocrisy.