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"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."
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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder."
Politics
"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all."
Freedom
"You can't take back an act you were able to think."
Act
"Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age."
Age
"Justice is horrible."
Justice
"So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right."
Art
"A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn."
Thought
"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity."
Humanity
"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."
Hope
"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal."
Difference
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