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When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
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True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
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To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
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A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
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Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
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Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
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If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
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Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
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It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
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There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
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Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
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Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
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A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
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There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
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Happiness is always a coincidence.
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The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.