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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

"I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it."

"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."
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"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."

"As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound."
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