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"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Genius is the talent of a person who is dead."
Talent
"People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug."
People
"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
Man
"If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion."
Religion
"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."
History
"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."
Life
"Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins."
Laughter
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
Government
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
Love
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