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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."
Science
"Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it."
Faith
"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."
Love
"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still."
Life
"You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible."
Life
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
Peace
"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."
Woman
"The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well."
Art
"I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure."
Work
"The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved."
Society
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