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"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"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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"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 seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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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."
Food
"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."
Life
"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."
People
"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
Diplomacy
"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."
Communication
"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
Man
"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."
Moon
"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
Writing
"I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words."
Writing
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
Nature
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