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"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
Mistake
"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
Art
"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
Being
"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
Life
"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
Strength
"Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state."
Art
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
Love
"Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic."
Life
"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
Power
"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."
Life
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