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" A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. "
Calculator
Businessman
Hybrid
" A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. "
Great
Others
Man
" A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas. "
Ideas
Art
Difficulties
" A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. "
Than
Thoughts
More
" A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. "
True
Man
Secrets
" A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. "
Inner
Key
Lock
" An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. "
Never
Work
Really
" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "
Abandoned
Poetry
Poem
" At times I think and at times I am. "
I Am
Am
Brainy
" Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. "
Content
Animals
Fire
" God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. "
Finding
Man
Solitude
" God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. "
God
Nothing
Out
" History is the science of things which are not repeated. "
Things
History
Science
" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "
Poetry
Say
Well
" Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. "
Become
Pass
Made
" Love is being stupid together. "
Love
Being
Stupid
" Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. "
He
Mask
Man
" Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. "
Nothing
Than
More
" Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. "
Writer
Never
Poe
" Politeness is organized indifference. "
Indifference
Politeness
Organized
" Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. "
Business
Own
People
" Power without abuse loses its charm. "
Without
Power
Abuse
" Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. "
Successful
Science
Rest
" Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. "
Never
People
Ideas
" That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. "
False
Almost
Always
" That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. "
Always
Been
Chance
" The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. "
True
Your Dreams
Wake Up
" The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. "
Science
Us
Spring
" The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. "
Future
Everything
Used
" The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. "
Great
Up
Thought
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