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"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
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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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"Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact."
People
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
Love
"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."
Dream
"When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord."
Desire
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
Memories
"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening."
Absence
"Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
Friendship
"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
Happiness
"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world."
Energy
"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
Paris
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