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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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Personal Development
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
Family
"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
Desire
"Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country."
Man
"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
Love
"It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
Man
"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."
Love
"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."
Journalism
"The best way to fill time is to waste it."
Time
"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
Happiness
"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."
Journalism
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