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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.


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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.



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The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.



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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.



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I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.



The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.



We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness



If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .



There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.



To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.



They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.





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Most people that work in [show] business, if they're not gypsies by nature, become gypsies, just because of the reality of this business.



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Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."



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Anyway, the fetish crowd, compared to some of the people that hung out with the skinheads, was all pussycats.



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It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.



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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.




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