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"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
Life
"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
Beauty
"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."
Christian
"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."
Friendship
"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
Love
"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."
Family
"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
Being
"He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it."
Life
"Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres."
Family
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