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"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"
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"He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast."
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"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
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"Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone."
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"We are but a bunch of neurons."
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"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."
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"He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast."
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"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."
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"Man is a problem-creating animal."
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"Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess."
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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
Life
"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."
Time
"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
Advice
"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
People
"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
Travel
"Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play."
Writing
"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
Literature
"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
Man
"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
Power
"In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."
Nature
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