in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Our self-esteem and conceit are European, but our culture and actions are Asiatic.
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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples'character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. What a terrible future!
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I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
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When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
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We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.
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There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.
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I don't care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I've already written.
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Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?
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I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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