No bad man can be a good poet.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

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Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

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In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

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As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

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