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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
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Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
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