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My aversion from music rests on political grounds.
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Disease has nothing refined about it, nothing dignified.
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It is a cruel atmosphere down there, cruel and ruthless.
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A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
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War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
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Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
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But he would stay the course — it was his favorite motto.
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Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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Beer, tobacco, and music, he went on. Behold the Fatherland.
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Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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War is nothing but a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?
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What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!
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Disease makes men more physical; it leaves them with nothing but body.
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Asia surrounds us — wherever one's glance rests, a Tartar physiognomy.
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In our time the destiny of man presents its meanings in political terms.
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
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If love is the best thing in life, then the best part of love is the kiss.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
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I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being.
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The positive thing about the sceptic is that he considers everything possible!
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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
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He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.
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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
June 6, 1875
Died:
August 12, 1955
(aged 80)
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