"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

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"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."

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"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."

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"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."

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"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."

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"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."

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"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

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"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."

"It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened."

"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."

"The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world."

"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."

"Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food."

"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."