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We think we understand each other, but we never really do.
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The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.
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None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
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There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
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The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.
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We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
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The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
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If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.
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The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
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Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
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We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.
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Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
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Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
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Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.
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Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.
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You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
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But you must play your part, just as I am playing mine. It's all in the game... Each of us must play his part through to the end.
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Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
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A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
June 28, 1867
Died:
December 10, 1936
(aged 69)
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