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

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"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."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"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."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
Delight

"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
Dream

"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."
Time

"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
Speech

"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."
Conflict

"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
Persistence

"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."
Pain

"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
Paradise

"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
Consciousness

"We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us."
Interest
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