"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."

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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death."

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"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."

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"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

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"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect."

"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all."

"Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death."

"The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said."

"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."

"Truth is always a delusion."

"World history is tragic."

"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."

"The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual."

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."