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" Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question. "

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" To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. "

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" I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude. "

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" In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. "

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" What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. "

" Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. "

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" I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. "

" The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. "

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" The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. "

" Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. "

" A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. "

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