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"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love."

"I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you."

"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."

"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."

"Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs."

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."

"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."

"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."

"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."

"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."

"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."

"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."

"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."

"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."

"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
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