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Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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A lot of people think, or at least feel, that anyone who does not share their habits and enthusiasms is an enemy. In matters of essential ideas, I find intransigence logical.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The clarity in science is necessary; but in literature, it is not. To see clearly is philosophy. To see clearly in the mystery is literature. That's what Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, Dostoevsky did...

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The law is inexorable, like dogs: it only barks at those who are poorly dressed.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The death is someone who withdraws from himself and returns to us. There are no more dead than those carried by the living.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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If you want to do something in life, don't believe in the word impossible. Nothing is impossible for a strong will.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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So in life, many times, one does not know if it is oneself pushing the events or if it is the events that drag one along.

Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault

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Mature age is the one in which you are still young, but with much more effort.

J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

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I am not so young as to know everything.

J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

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Every man's life is a diary in which he tries to write a story but writes another.

J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

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Never attribute to an adversary motivations more vile than your own.

J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

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We never understand how little we need from this world until we realize that we have lost it.

J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.