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"It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"Bad literature is a form of treason."
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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"Man is what he reads."
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"I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside."
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"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
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"For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey."
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"This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising."
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"Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse."
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"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."
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