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" I never can understand how anyone can not smoke - it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally. "

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" People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives. "

" Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. "

" Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. "

" A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own. "

" For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. "

" A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. "

" What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. "

" For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed. "

" If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. "

" War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. "

" One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. "

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" He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. "

" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "

" The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. "

" It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. "

" Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. "

" Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. "

" There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. "

" For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. "

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