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"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
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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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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
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"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."
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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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"I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men."
Man
"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
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world."
Nature
"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."
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."
People
"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
"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
"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."
Diplomacy
"I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."
Life
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