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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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Personal Development

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"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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"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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"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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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
Old


"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."
Family


"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
Freedom


"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
Man


"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
Animals


"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
Illusion


"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
Absence


"The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time."
Time


"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Writer


"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
Humor
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