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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."

"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."

"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
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