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

"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."

"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"


"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"


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


"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."
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