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"It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to."
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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
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"Good God. Men everywhere."
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"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done--whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was."
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"She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried. She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there. Neither was she ever seen by human vision to go at a great pace."
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"Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year."
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"Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world."
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"In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding - at a distance, through the medium of photography - other people's pain."
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"The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even if I just sit there and observe silently, not seen: that is important, that I as a watcher of all that happens should be at my place."
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"The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces."
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"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."
Being
"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."
Government
"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
Literature
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
Travel
"It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to."
Observation
"The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul."
Spiritual
"Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity."
Politics
"A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste."
Creativity
"It's only on a black day that you begin to have friends."
Relationship
"We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future."
Ethics
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