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"I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."
"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."
"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
"Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it."
"In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis."
"It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style."
"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."
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