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"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
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