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"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."

"I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays."
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"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."


"There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."


"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."
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