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"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."
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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
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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."


"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."


"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."


"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."


"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
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