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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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Personal Development
"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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Personal Development
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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Personal Development
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality
"It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd."
Society
"I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots."
Criticism
"Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT."
Intensity
"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."
Life
"Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself."
Life
"You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs."
Society
"Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal."
Art
"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."
Action
"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
Man
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