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Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.
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Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
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The first condition of immortality is death.
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Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?
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The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.
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Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
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He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.
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Do not make gods in your own images.
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Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
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If you do not know his language, you will never understand a foreigner's silence.
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Pants get shiny even on a throne.
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It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
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Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
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What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
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Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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Everything is illusion. Even that last sentence.
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I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure.
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
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Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
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To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
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You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
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