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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"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."

"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."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"


"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."


"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."


"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."
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