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"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
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"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."

"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

"What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them."

"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."

"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."

"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."

"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
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