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"Ah, this dear old planet! All is clear now. We know ourselves; we now know of what we are capable."
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"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"
"She had accepted him as he was and had spared him a great deal of loneliness. He had been unfair: while his imagination and vanity had given her too much importance, his pride had given her too little. He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
"It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence."
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend."
"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool."
"If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living."
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