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"The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality."
Life
"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
Art
"The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight."
Love
"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
Dream
"The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."
Religion
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."
Literature
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."
Work
"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."
Change
"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
Language
"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."
Man
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