"Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain."

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"Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain."

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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

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