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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
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Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world
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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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In prose you make the paragraph. Every paragraph is a poem.
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Who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Sociability is just a big smile, and a big smile is nothing but teeth.
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We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.
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That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.
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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
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As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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The only decent activity in the world [is] to pray for everyone, in solitude.
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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin
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Born:
March 12, 1922
Died:
October 21, 1969
(aged 47)
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