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"People's fates are simplified by their names."
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"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble."
Thought
"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."
Dream
"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."
Food
"The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm of the hand."
Thought
"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."
Family
"Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently."
People
"People's fates are simplified by their names."
People
"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."
Failure
"One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it."
Life
"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development
"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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Personal Development
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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Personal Development
"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
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Personal Development
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