Quotes by Rejtő Jenő

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Everyone comes from where they want or where they are released.

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He does not punish or take revenge, he does not judge. Punishment is God's business, man can only be merciful.

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Until now, all he knew was that there was prejudice. That the slightest suspicion makes people commit unjust acts. Now he experienced the opposite. The faith. The unshakable faith without any certainty, even despite all the evidence.

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If people want to hate each other, they are capable of using even the most noble intentions in the spirit of corruption.

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One converted sinner is worth more than a hundred true believers.

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To err is human, but it can happen to me too.

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A woman is like a poetic simile - if she's beautiful, it doesn't matter if she doesn't make any sense.

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The woman is coming! It always starts like this! Caution! Attention! The man calculates everything carefully, with foresight, precisely and definitively. And here comes the woman! With lies of a hundred and twenty kilometers per second, panting, fighting, staring, swooning or smiling; it suddenly comes and knocks everything down! Then he sits down on this pile and powders himself. And he offers his sincere condolences. Beware of the woman! Even the simplest everyday concepts become confusing if we want to clarify them in relation to women.

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My mother! If they come and tell you that your son is a deranged, bad bohemian, don't let your dear good heart ache for me. I've done so many bad things. My mother! If they come and tell you that I walk around crying at night And laugh drunkenly at dawn, Mother! Turn away and don't think about me.

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Those who learn to think wisely from the greatest masters usually, in the rarest of cases, come up with something that they can use.

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A fabricated lie is never worth as much as a skillful telling of the truth.

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Don't steal or beat anyone on Sunday, because six days is enough for everything.

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Those who don't feel pain in life also bear the thought of death more easily.

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Escape is sweet after work.

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A fool is quite logical, but the criticism of sane people is superficial.

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This girl herself didn't know what she wanted, but she didn't let it go, and there is nothing as fatal and overwhelming as a woman when she is wrong about something. Tell him not to learn to sing, for he has no voice, ask him not to iron, for he will lose it, beg him not to wear a hat, as it does not suit him; it's like asking the cyclone to take a seat for a minute. At most, this Orkan doesn't say over his shoulder, with a disparaging smile, that: you don't have to teach me. Just trust me.

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Most of the time, dislike and friendly feelings between people are not woven by rationality.

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He who strikes first calls last.

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Love always causes trouble. So I categorically declare: there is no love! Or rather: there is only love. We need to talk about this. It is very important, because if we turn off the conceptual confusion called love from the possibilities, we can live according to a definite plan. And who says it's not important? I!

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Don't be vain and conceited to be different and smarter than your fellow human beings.

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Avoid a drunk person, so that you are not molested in a similar state.

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It's no use hiding your past: the woman will find out sooner or later, and you'll fly like a swan.

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A woman's heart is just like the sea: it beats calmly and smoothly, but no one can see its depths, and if so, woe betide it.

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You can't believe the truth... You have to know it or leave it. But this world belongs to dilettantes.

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Nature sometimes works miracles. Sometimes a crop of strawberries or violets pokes its dauntless head in the grass, at the base of a bush, far past its season's month. But this is quite different. That's a miracle! The miracle on earth, the miracle of souls, which forever comes before the faithful in the spirit of simplicity! It is the robust, mythical voice of the child, the farmer, the mother or the victim who died innocently, which overcomes the complicated person. Even the synthetic being, who builds and judges, bows before the crystal clear truth.

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Recognizing every untrue fact brings you one step closer to the true state of affairs.

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Love is a dark stack. Especially if they cover it and sit on it.

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For some inexplicable reason, people like to read art-loving nonsense about what they know well based on personal experience.

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People in big apartments, in comfort, among big words and beautiful theories, have no idea what kind of torments, what kind of horrors exist.

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The truth, when suppressed, is a slow-acting poison. He chewed his way through thick prison walls and centuries weighing on him.

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How about the great saying of tramps? "Everywhere is good, but nowhere is the best!"

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Red wine hurts, but says: "It would be nice to live!" If you drink more, it says: "You have to live!" If you drink too much, he shouts: "You will live!" And it's beautiful even if it's not true.

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If you strongly believe something, it's almost like it's true.

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A curious tourist is like a husband in love. He believes everything and sees nothing.

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We don't know what would happen to Beethoven and Goethe if people could only express their appreciation for artists in cash.

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Friendship is often woven from opposites.

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If you love someone else! That's the worst! You can't stand that. It's unbearable. Ended agony like death. No atonement! Because loving someone else is not a sin, so it is unforgivable.

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When men growl, they are like trained bears: they growl because of a wire tied to their noses, but still go after them when they are pulled.

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To err is human, but embarrassing.

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He who hesitates a lot will make a dress sooner than he who bravely cuts into the fabric.

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Ultimately, death does not begin when someone does not respond to even the most subtle observation, but when the body, soul and spirit lose the content that gives meaning to their functioning.

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Go if you want. And want to go if you can.

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Bad luck is like a woman in love: it has nothing to do with reason. Sometimes he joins someone, seemingly against all reason, but just as quickly leaves him without any ascertainable reason.

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Where there is society, there must be law, and where there is law, justice will arise... And where there is justice, injustice will also be born.

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The best antidote to suicide is time. And love...

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Being human is a great disease. And also incurable.

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To live means to be happy at any cost.

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Life is like the vest of a summer dress: short and aimless.

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But whoever sees that the sky, as if praying itself, bows down reverently on the edge of the desert, believes and hopes and humbly awaits its judgment.

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The world isn't so gifted that a few smart people can't fool it.

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I realized that ruling is not difficult, you just have to get to the throne in this crowd. The whole world is like a big crowd: sometimes people are in front, sometimes behind.

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Even a tramp can have a mom just like the better people.

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Only those who have no imagination are not afraid.

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Getting married is usually a significant step up in the career of a geographer. This is when his long, far-reaching, possibly multi-year journeys take place, when no jungle can be deep, dark, remote and dangerous enough.

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The life of the world-traveling scientist is in God's hands.

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Old mountain travelers tell us that when the eternal ice, the endless night, the torment of frostbite and other privations seemed unbearable, someone remembered the preparations for the journey, and they calmed down a little, because they felt that their fate was relatively more tolerable now.

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Exactly two years ago, a news circulated in the world press that the great researcher of the archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, Gustav Bahr, a member of the English Royal Geographical Society, etc., was lost. His name was last mentioned on the menu of a cannibal tribe in connection with some sour side dish, and since then he has been lost.

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Don't they know how to defend themselves against gnawing tarpaulin literature? Gustav Bahr's exciting work for everyone is published cheaply for a wide range of people: "With a sextant through the imaginaries of light years and sectors in the pursuit of the relations of the cosmic system and oceanobiography, in the differential integral system." This would provide the key to all kinds of cowboy and adventure novels! And it would also have a beneficial educational effect.

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Man, for his own well-conceived benefit, was created so that he could not see into the future.

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Sorry to interrupt, but I don't understand geography: how can Africa kiss?

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Who is quietly restless here, was a writer and moved to the ranks of the living. He died thirty-six years, lived a few days, And when he thought, he only dreamed A few pages. And when he was laughed at: He thought he was laughing. Now he lies here under this heavy Graveyard, The germ sprouts from his green skull And he dreams that he is alive. Poor. To the sounds of peace! Amen.

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Public affairs are everyone's favorite private affairs.

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The starry infinity conveys something completely reassuring, which one does not understand, but knows that it is very well so. As it is, badly. Very good.

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A truth is important even if it doesn't make any sense.

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People want to read what they like to imagine, and they don't like it when reality contradicts it.

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You have to jump on the train of fortune when it's just rushing past you, no matter where it's taking you, because one wrong, hesitant jump, and you'll be waiting for another train all your life in vain.

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Fate watches over lives invisibly and silently, and everything happens as it wants.

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I haven't had much joy in my life. But sometimes I was happy, and that's why it doesn't hurt to think about getting old.

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That's how women are. Fifteen times they throw something away, which, after they have been completely abandoned, they realize was their most precious treasure.

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Only what is very beautiful is usually such that you say goodbye to it forever, because it hurts forever.

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The primitive naivety of men has hardly declined since the Stone Age.

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Luck is a wooden iron ring. Take everything, take it well. Fulfillment of impossible possibilities. If one can expect every improbable favorable turn with logical certainty, one is a lucky person. Absolutely: who can count. Because if the unlucky person says that twice two is four, when he looks over, he sees that he was dealing with twice three, and in the meantime it also became six.

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There was that huge gulf between them that often separates two people from each other, even though a single spoken word might be able to bridge it in abundance. But the people at Babel forgot to talk.

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The truth is sometimes buried, but lies are always revealed.

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Advertising is telling people in advance that they will be happy about something.

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The final success is not the triumph, but the first.

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Every man must do his part for his country.

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What does a man do who gives up all hope? Dante said. He's going to hell.

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When Adam and Eve lived in paradise, their relationship was made legal by the fact that they loved each other. To what extent have conditions changed since then? Today, legalization is usually more important than the serious harmony of two hearts.

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In the dark, all cities are black.

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The honor and purity of two people never depends on the situation they find themselves in, but on their mental world.

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After all, you haven't changed anything! - For ladies who have come from far away, this is as common a greeting as when two young men say to each other: Hallo, boy!

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Money is the only good, of which there is no harm in too much.

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Courage is always a beneficial state of mind. Especially appreciated by ladies.

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The harbor is like a jungle, only there are not so many trees. But it's much more dangerous. It's full of ships and fights.

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There is no greater terror than when a man's faith in his senses is shaken...

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- Do you know, good man, that fighting seems to be just as regular and expedient a science as martial arts? - You always have to make sure that you hit the first one.

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Readers and writers alike like to get past the so-called antecedents of the novel quickly. This sort of thing is partly boring and partly stereotyped, especially today, when certain types of novel writing are no longer prepared industrially, but according to the rules of culinary art, based on ready-made recipes. For example: "Take two young loving hearts, break them, boil the passions, sprinkle a little sweet church blessing on top, and you can serve it to the reader at any time, well-cooked or half-baked."

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I despise the listener. Every time I listened, I had a mental conflict afterwards. Believe me, there is something reminiscent of assassination when we stab another person's secret from behind with our hearing organ.

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Fate is like a drunken tailor: when you cut into the fabric, you can't tell whether it will turn out to be a coat or trousers.

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Honesty is like a true gentleman: it knows no bargains.

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A woman's honor is like good tailoring: one should not stand out so much as to be praised.

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Always going and going, and when you start, you never know when you can sit down again.

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Getting up early: half a betrayal! He who rises early wants to find gold. No? Anyone who finds gold is suspicious, because they would like to become capitalists. But to whom can such a thing be proved? Let's not accuse blindly.

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Who cares what they write these days? The language of the age is photography.

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Fate irresistibly drags you into something terrible.

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Such is life; once down, once up. And finally: nothing hurts up there anymore.

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A joke is separated from a tragedy by nothing more than a hair, which we can say is a matter of perception.

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When fantasy and life meet, the face of reality is especially distorted. A caricature is born from their marriage.

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Even the dog barks at the moon at night, yet the sky does not darken...

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There are two kinds of soldiers, one who achieves something through his discipline, the other who achieves because of his wits.

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In life, it happens every day that people don't love what they deserve.

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Life is hard, but dying is not easy either.

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If life is short, extend it with a left step.

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Anyone who has dealt with tigers, snakes and lions for a long time knows well the psyche of women.

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The moment of death is like a plug: a clever person always pulls it out somehow.

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The foundation of all friendships is honesty. (...) Between two people, it always starts with confiding their secrets to each other.

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The honor of two people cannot be decided by a situation in which they found themselves. If they are typical, then nothing can happen anyway. If there is no moral purity in them, then there is no need for so much temptation.

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A photographer (...) looks at the world through the narrow field of view of a magnifying lens. And we can observe that those who magnify everything are usually narrow-minded people. Narrow-minded people know very little, but know it thoroughly. This can be observed at the compurzár. The narrower you set the shutter opening, the sharper the lens looks.

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Time is money, but money is not time. Time is invincible.

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Sensation is what connects apparently separate events. Note this! It is not the event, but the connection that is needed here.

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Many men are like tailcoats: without the right environment, they become useless.

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The blunders of great people are sometimes rewarded with a different recognition than the genius of little ones.

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The truth... often remains a secret... But injustice... everything will be revealed... The rest will be up there... in closed court.

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Beginning doctors often confuse fanatical individuals with obsessive mental patients. If the patient does not consider self-operating tram tickets or similar physical incapacity to be an urgent reform, but more production or increased state control of pastries made by minors, it is possible that he will later become a minister or a publicist. The fanatical repetition of fixed and true ideas is not yet precisely demarcated in front of medical science. That's why it sometimes turns out late about great reformers that their ideas were not real, but a hodgepodge. But in this case, you can no longer handle them, because they have been given a high position, great authority, and a world-famous order of merit.

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It's terrible how tight it is to wear another person's life.

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That's right. It's simple and yet eternally beautiful, a great miracle of life, that after more than ten years, a woman is already aware in a second of the usual touch: it wasn't "He" who grabbed her shoulder.

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If you really believe in something, maybe it doesn't matter if it's not true. Oftentimes mere faith can be a real great gift.

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Of two different suitors, the one who expresses his emotions less often is always more sympathetic to the woman.

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Our relationship with men, my dear, consists of the two activities of rightfully condemning them and unjustly forgiving them.

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A sick body is tormented by a lack of health. In a sick soul, the lack of soul hurts.

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The secret is a life-giving element, a naturally selected antidote to the cyanide of reality.

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The most important events in our lives can actually be traced back to uncontrollable nothingness, apart from spectacular reasons.

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I don't like to judge anyone by their weakness. I don't consider curiosity a sin either. It may make you age quickly, at least the fact that many women go to the beautician all the time at a relatively young age speaks for itself, but it is by no means a sin.

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I need it like I was born for!

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How simple life would be if people could honestly and honestly communicate their opinions, feelings and thoughts to each other.

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What does the strength of the hand matter to someone who does not dare to lift it?

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Life is like smoke. Elillan, before you were truly happy.

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Life is only beautiful when it's a little crazy.

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Nothing can become power if someone convinces a mass of people with bitter lives that they have the right to do injustice.

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Nor is the devil unsympathetic, and yet he is liked better when he is evil than when he sings lullabies. Man clings to his illusions.

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Harmony is the constant melody lurking in the depths of everything.

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The low value of certain relationships cannot be changed by any intervention in life.

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Even the smallest formality is a block on the road leading to the correct judgment.

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Life sometimes allows itself (...) jokes, otherwise people would think that something in this world depends on them, and their forward-looking statements and hair-brained conclusions are essentially not just the physiological manifestation of their existence.

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He humiliated me and defeated me, so I fell completely in love with him. I've never been beaten before.

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If a person acts irregularly for thousands of citizens, it is said to be in the public interest; if you do it for one, it is called abuse of office.

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It is easy to talk to even the greatest gentleman if he is not visited in his office. No one likes to deal with official matters in the office.

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My opinion is that if we are smart, we don't even need to work anymore. What would we work for? Work is not a shame, but it is boring.

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The value of money is determined by what one can spend it on. Even if you don't use it for anything. Having ten million dollars on a floating iceberg means nothing.

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According to a wise saying, we learn not for school, but for life. Likewise, a gentleman shaves not for company, but for himself.

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Reality is like a precious stone, it is polished so much by the time it is put on the market that it becomes completely different from what it originally was.

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Oh Lord! But you are big! And what a stage director was lost in fate!

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The best life is the golden age of the artist. Because age has the opposite meaning in our profession. As long as the artist is young, he is close to death. You can die every evening, and possibly in the afternoon, with moderate local prices.

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The only honor of which no human being on this earth can be unworthy is to be mourned when he is dead.

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Wealth is for a dog if you don't have someone to share the money with.

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Keep your heads up, my young friends! Life is like a woman: fickle!

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There have always been and always will be superstitious people, because Allah wanted some people not to see what they see and not what they hear, but to seek a separate truth for themselves, and when they find it, they can believe that they are smarter than the rest .

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Only one woman can rebuild what another woman destroyed.