Quotes by Agatha Christie

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The fact that an alarm clock did not ring has already changed many human destinies.

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It's tiring when a man is right all the time.

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Man must make his own life with his own hands.

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A man who tries to cover his weakness with grand phrases and noble principles involuntarily arouses suspicion.

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Human nature is the same everywhere.

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However, how wonderful everything is arranged in nature. Any man with an unattractive appearance is sure to become a woman's choice.

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A little cursing makes life spicier.

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This is of no importance. Here's why it's so exciting.

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I know no stronger hatred than that of a man whom fate has made him love against his will.

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Russians are most excited by power, and there is nothing for which they feel less respect than military impotence.

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The English are the only people in the world who like to be told things can't get any worse than this.

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Broken from the truth, consciousness is no more than nonsense, it deserves pity and no respect.

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Always check your quotes: your own before you say them, someone else's after they've been said.

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Generals always prepare for a past war.

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Capitalism's biggest flaw is the unequal distribution of goods; the greatest privilege of socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.

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If you want to achieve your goal, don't try to be delicate or clever. Use brutal methods. Aim straight for your intended target. Turn around and hit again. Then hit once more with your strongest arm strike.

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It is better to bring news than to discuss it.

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The peacemaker is the one who feeds the crocodile in the hope that it will be eaten last.

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The Germans, like no other people, combine in themselves both the qualities of an exemplary fighter and the qualities of an exemplary slave.

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Responsibility is the price we pay for authority.

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The distinction between a statesman and a politician lies in the fact that the politician relies on future elections and the statesman on the next generation.

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Politics is as risky as war. Even much more dangerous. In war you are killed only once, but in politics - several times.

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Russians have always been underestimated, but they can keep secrets not only from their enemies, but also from their friends.

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The English always have a line of conduct, but it is not straight.

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A fanatic is one who cannot change his opinions or the subject.

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School teachers have an authority the Prime Minister can only dream of.

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I'm always willing to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

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In ninety-nine cases women act like fools, but in one hundredth case they are more cunning than men.

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In life, everyone has to make their own mistakes.

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The great advantage of a doctor is that he is not bound to follow his own advice.

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Mutual affection between men and women always begins with the amazing illusion that you will always think the same way.

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A man in love is a pitiful sight.

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Time is such an indeterminate thing. To some, time seems very long. To another, vice versa.

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An excellent reputation is the first necessity of a scammer!

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Pretending to know something is harder than finding it out.

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It's never too late to know the truth.

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If a secret is known by more than two people, it is no longer a secret.

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They say that we must speak well or nothing about the dead. In my opinion, this is nonsense. The truth always remains the truth. If it is a matter of refraining, you must do so when speaking of the living. You can hurt them, unlike the dead.

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Women don't know how to wait, remember this.

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Women are seldom wrong in their opinions of one another.

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I'm more interested in victims than criminals.

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The evil done by a man lives many times longer than he.

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Because of these blondes, so much evil is happening in the world!

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No one can change man.

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The delusion that a woman could guide a ruffian to virtue is one of the sweetest female delusions of all time.

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Every killer is probably a good acquaintance of someone.

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How much the stomach influences the convolutions!

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Of course, idle chatter is a sinful and evil thing, but it often proves true.

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The lie reveals itself to the one who knows how to listen, no less than the truth does. Sometimes even more!

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I've always had a hard time understanding why the best of women are interested in the worst of men.

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The young think the old are fools, but the old know the young are fools!

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For men, danger lurks everywhere, and for women especially in love.

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A man is a vain creature.

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A man always attaches great importance to his wife's past.

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Husbands certainly do not need to be told the truth about their wives! It's funny, but telling wives the truth about their husbands' past is possible without any problem!

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Lack of imagination predisposes to murder.

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Unquestionable logic is characteristic of a maniac.

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Nothing is so oppressive as devotion.

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Freedom must be judged by the degree of freedom of those below.

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The politician wants to stay at his post, always, for the greatest reasons!

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Truly love the one who is least loved.

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Talks are made up to stop people from thinking.

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Freedom is worth fighting for.

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A reserved man is much more interesting.

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Death gives rise to distorted views in favor of the deceased.

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And yet intuition is a strange thing, it can neither be refuted nor explained away.

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Strange is this world, where two look at one and the same thing, but see it completely upside down.

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The subjects for my crime novels are found when I'm washing the dishes. This is such a ridiculous occupation that I involuntarily think of murder.

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Where love is concerned, women think little, if at all, of pride. Pride is something that does not disappear from their language, but never manifests itself in deeds and actions.

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I am afraid that from human nature, which I have had the opportunity to observe for so long, you cannot expect anything good.

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The night in the village is much more gloomy than in the indifferent city full of familiar noises, where you feel safe in the familiar, familiar crowd. There is no loneliness... but here...

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Besides, there are so many rumours... there are nasty rumors about the antagonisms that can arise between two women who live together... what sick tempers can arise and lead to violence.

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The war destroyed morals. Times have changed.

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It has been my experience for a long time that many sinners betray themselves by talking unnecessarily.

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Common sense cannot understand what each woman sees and feels in a certain man. You can't help but acknowledge the fact. The same woman who approaches all the questions of the world with a brilliant intellect, completely loses her head when it comes to a certain man.

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The value of money is always relative (...). What matters is who needs it.

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Any doctor who predicts exactly when his patient will die, or rather how long he will live, is necessarily making a fool of himself. Unpredictable factors play a decisive role in human life. Often the weak show unexpected resilience, and the strong break down.

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Women can make a fool of themselves in ninety-nine ways, but they are a hundred times more shrewd.

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Two women locked in a small house, deadly boredom all around, the main events: a big wash... the drain is blocked... the cat has to be chased out... and the like. Of course he eavesdropped, of course he opened letters... everyone would do that.

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Sometimes the past doesn't go away, it refuses to be forgotten. He stays by our side as if to say: you are not done with me yet.

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It's not good to dwell on the past. One should not always look back.

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No one ever sees himself as others see him.

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Women have a much worse turn in the world than men. They are more vulnerable. They give birth to children, and then they can worry about their children all the time. As soon as they lose their beauty, the men they love no longer love them. They are betrayed, abandoned, pushed aside. I don't blame the men. I would do that myself. I don't like people who are old, ugly, or sick, or who whine about their problems, or who are ridiculous and show off how important and valuable people are. Are you saying I'm cruel? The world is cruel! And sooner or later he will be cruel to me too!

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Although, come to think of it, the Snow Queen would suit you better. He is merciless, determined to go after his own head, knows neither mercy nor kindness, nor even the germ of pity.

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You know, it's in one's blood to approach things from the point of view of the stage set rather than from reality.

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I don't know how to approach it. Why can't you enjoy life? We used to be so good together... we fooled around a lot... And now it's like they've been replaced. How can a person change so much?

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It is not at all easy to judge someone well just by what others say about them.

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Ambition, the pursuit of success, and the desire for power cause the most trouble in the human soul. If these desires are satisfied, it leads to violence and domination. If they are not satisfied - well, that is really bad, the doctors of the various psychiatric hospitals could say a lot about this! These are all full of human beings who could not bear mediocrity, insignificance and the fact that they had no influence on the course of things. Therefore, they ran away from reality, at the same time excluding themselves from real life forever.

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Jealousy and judgment are the deepest emotions in the human soul.

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A doctor, my friend, knows secrets, important secrets. A doctor has power. Imagine a patient on the border between health and disease. One word from the doctor's mouth, and the patient is excluded from the world... What a temptation for a mentally unbalanced patient!

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Everyone was taught to know the difference between right and wrong. However, now I myself do not know whether there is a difference.

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A man must have pity... because after all, that's what makes a man... good luck and bad luck.

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If I illuminate one thing, I cannot see the other. And it so often happens that one shines a light on the bad, although it is difficult to tell whether this is by accident or on purpose.

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No one can really be spared anything. Sooner or later you have to face things.

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Sometimes it's hard to decide what's right. I have only one desire left: to do the right thing.

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I've never managed to change anyone, I don't think it's possible. So it's best not to give me a headache, right?

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It may be that putting self-interest first led to the survival of the human race.

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The plant also has roots, not just flowers (...). And if the roots in the ground die, then the beautiful big flowers are over too.

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You never know what women are thinking. (...) What foolish things they are capable of.

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The more they talk, the better. Because there is a lot of substance to many speeches, but there is always some truth in what they say.

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How stupid men are (...), how impossibly stupid they are. In everything else, they have their wits about them, and then they marry the most unsuitable woman.

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There are women (...) against whom one tries hard in vain. Those who cannot be persuaded, persuaded, or intimidated.

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I don't like photos. They tie people too much to the past. But we have to learn to forget. We need to cut off the dead branches.

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The tragedy of life is that people don't change.

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Human character, mon cher, changes. It can be strengthened and distorted. What a person is like is only determined when they are put to the test...that is, when it becomes clear whether a person can stand on his own two feet or not.

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A person cannot simply erase what happened once. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen.

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We all have an image of ourselves...how we want to see ourselves.

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When a person finds himself in the middle of a bad dream, he can only cling to everyday things.

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He wants to forget - to forget everything, everything. It's as if everything that happened until now was just a dream. He's gone, he's broken up, he's had enough - he's had enough of his old life, old emotions. He feels new, foreign, defenseless, immature, who has to start all over again. He is a complete stranger in this new world, full of fear.

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This is love: it can do anything, even extremes! He can make a hero out of a worm... and drive the most decent man to meanness.

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Strange springs move human nature.

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- After all, the human face is nothing but a mask... - And underneath? - And below that is the primitive man... or woman.

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The life instinct works in all of us. Man does not live because he consciously decides that he wants to live.

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When we love someone passionately, we will always experience more pain than joy. But one would not give up on this experience. Those who have never truly loved do not even know what life is.

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Never tell your suitor everything! A man should never be too sure of his business!

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What a person hides, he doesn't talk about. But perhaps he says more than he should about other things.

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If someone wants to hide something, sooner or later they will talk too much.

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It is a big mistake if a creator leaves his secret fortress. Creators are shy, shy creatures who atone for their lack of social skills by surrounding themselves with imaginary company.

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And people keep things, silly, insignificant things from the past. They keep them for emotional reasons, or they simply don't notice them anymore and forget they exist at all.

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Speech, no matter how light, no matter how meaningless, inevitably reveals what kind of person a person is.

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And speech is like a stone thrown into a lake, it creates ripples that grow and grow.

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Nothing can create a bigger feud between two women than a man.

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Men do not please without interest. You wouldn't have come this far if you were a banjo and had acne.

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Women can learn things about each other that a man never can.

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Everyone has to find the most suitable method for themselves.

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Women know all about crime. And mostly very successful criminals too. (...) They don't give in easily. It's unbelievable how reckless they are.

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People don't really know what children go through.

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I don't mind having to work if I have to. But I will do what I like and I will work to get something. I feel like I'm wrangling in a spider's web here.

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I know that I am not needed, that I am not needed... I am perfectly aware of it. If things had turned out differently, if I had found my place in life, everything would have been different. It's really quite different. It's not my fault that I can't find my place in life.

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This is a new generation. We can think that they are doing many things wrong, but we can no longer interfere.

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Do you trust me (...). At least that's what you claimed... I can only assure you that I will try to earn your trust.

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You never lived in a village (...). You'd probably be surprised what kind of things go on in a clean, peaceful village.

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You have a knack for that sort of thing. Always has been. You were forever that kind, innocent creature, (...) while nothing ever surprised you, you always expected the worst.

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It's strange, but quite natural, because if you live in the same country as your friends, you don't feel the need to organize meetings with them. He assumes that sooner or later they will run into each other anyway. But that doesn't happen if they're on other roads.

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Love turns into hate very easily: the passion itself is almost the same. It is easier to hate someone we love than to be indifferent to them.

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I enjoy never knowing what the next moment will bring (...). And yet, for many people, this very feeling creates constant anxiety.

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It's scary how everyone claims they don't forget, but in reality they only ever remember their own phantasmagoria. In any case, fantasy always builds on some fact.

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People (...) don't remember facts, but their own impressions. Impressions also have some basis.

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A person can be known to some extent from the words of friends and acquaintances, but the inner, essential details may still remain obscure.

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An old sin has a long shadow.

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Generosity does strange things to people. It ties them in knots. We know human nature. We do good to someone and from then on we have friendly feelings towards them. We love it. But the one with whom we did good, does he also feel the same friendly towards us? Will he love us too? It should be like this, but is it always like this?

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He didn't fight...he retreated to his shadow world. He didn't suffer defeat because he didn't even start the fight.

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It is very boring that you never feel anything.

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We were made for each other. And we found each other... we both knew that from now on we had to stay together forever.

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One cannot bear everything. I long for you so much that I can neither eat nor sleep nor rest.

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He hugged the woman, who did not object. They clung to each other hotly. But when they parted, the man was struck again by the strange, cold, calculating gaze of a pair of beautiful blue eyes.

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I'm really grateful to fate that I don't have to destroy your illusions.

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Women who have a little sense are usually terribly cruel.

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Life is much more valuable and interesting when there is a possibility that we will lose it. While we are young, strong and healthy and have life ahead of us, we don't really appreciate it.

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You know I don't care anymore. Are you interested? I hated him! But he makes me feel that I am connected to him, connected to him by what we did together.

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I'm not attracted somehow. He doesn't have a sex pill. There is not an iota of flirtatiousness in her gaze. Blond hair, fair skin, hazel eyes, quite a good figure, a pleasant smile, but she lacks that something that makes a man look after a woman on the street.

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Your sins will be revealed sooner or later.

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I also have the pitiful human desire for someone to find out how good I was.

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They're just waiting for me to hit them. But for now I don't want to die... I'm not willing to leave this world just to make them happy! I am much stronger.

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I only wanted good. - Man always imagines that he knows what he is doing good for the other person, but he does not.

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You don't need to know everything. There is no need to disturb the past. We don't need to poke our noses into something that doesn't belong to us.

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It would have been difficult for Poirot to say whether he actually liked her, any more than it is difficult to say whether we like beautiful people. Looking at beautiful things is a pleasant pastime, but one rejects beauty itself almost out of principle.

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Children know many things, sometimes they are aware of the strangest things. Children have a very good sense. They see a lot, understand a lot, even if they rarely talk about it. They know a lot that adults don't realize.

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Some things get into one's life like moths in clothes, and it is very difficult to get rid of them.

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Human nature, my dear, is just as everywhere. At most, the difference is that it is more difficult to observe in the big city.

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Fear is nothing but a lack of knowledge.

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Women achieve their goals by detours. They learn - even if they are not born with this knowledge - to take advantage of men's weak points.

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- Happiness is made up of small things, like a necklace is made up of small pearls. - Was your life like this, grandma? - Mostly. But now that I'm old and I mostly sit alone, my vision is blurry, I can hardly walk - now I know that there is an inner life and there is a life without us. But I'm too old to learn to live in that spirit.

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Upon awakening, dreams often seem wonderfully real. One is convinced that things really happened.

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We always realize what is most important to us when we have already lost it.

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Life is not about safety: you can't win a game without risk.

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People, my friend, like a little danger to spice up their lives every now and then. There are those who enjoy it passively... in a bullfight, for example. Some people like to read about it. Others look for it in the cinema. But one thing is certain: the constant feeling of security is hateful in the eyes of most people.

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Events come to us, not the other way around. Because why is it that some people's lives are full of excitement, while others are full of boredom? Could it be their environment? But no! One person can travel halfway around the world without anything interesting happening to them. A bloodbath the week before his arrival, an earthquake a day after his departure, a shipwreck on a missed flight. The other lives in a garden city, takes the train to the City every day, and yet all kinds of things happen to him. He falls into the clutches of extortionist criminal gangs, beautiful girls, and bank robbers. There are people who are simply attracted to accidents - and something happens to them even if they just go for a boat ride on the Városliget lake. The situation is similar with your own Hercule Poirot: you don't have to look for the crime, it comes to you on its own.

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Youth is a mistake that time, unfortunately, gets used to a person too quickly.

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He wasn't satisfied with being nicely handed the toast and butter, he wanted people to open their hearts and souls to him, let him look at them to his heart's content.

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The truth sometimes hurts - it destroys one's illusions.

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The best husband is an archaeologist: the older the woman, the more interested he is.

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Thinking passionately of another human being always causes more sorrow than joy. Despite all this, one cannot live without this experience.

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We are too inclined to attribute to God the many evils that man commits of his own free will. God does not need to punish us (...) We punish ourselves very diligently.

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We are probably much smarter and more intelligent! All it would take is a little determination.

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I have plenty of willpower. My life is active and full. I am one of the happiest people (...) I have a lot to do. But it's true that I immediately take up arms as soon as I hear this old-fashioned prejudice, according to which a woman's place is only at home.

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The greatest inventions and most brilliant achievements are due to inactivity, be it forced or voluntary. The human brain is happy to be spoon-fed the thoughts of others, but if we deprive it of this food, it reluctantly begins to think independently - and this thinking, let me remind you, can bring original and therefore valuable results.

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We are afraid of nuclear explosions, strontium 90 and the like, so we are really defenseless against scientific suggestion.

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- Do you think machines will eventually take the place of humans? - Your man yes. The one who is only a unit of labor. But never that of the capital Man. There is a controlling person, a thinking person who prepares questions for the machine.

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The world is changing, and these changes are becoming faster and faster. The pace has quickened and we must take advantage of it. New horizons are opening up.

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One has to organize one's own chess moves, and that requires quite a bit of planning, but nowadays there is no need, no need at all, for disgusting apprenticeships.

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For most rich people, getting money is the be-all and end-all of things. Invest more and more money, earn more and more money! But why? They don't rest and ask themselves the question: why? They do not know.

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You know, it all depends on what one wants from life. The point is that one's desires are strong enough. Many people have a lot of money but have no idea what they are using it for. Finally, they are then dragged along by the money-making machine. They become slaves. They go to the office early in the morning and stay late; they don't have time for pleasure. And what is the reward? Bigger car, house, more expensive lover or wife, and let me add, more and more headaches.

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The weak point... everyone has a weak point... deep in the tissues of the body. From weakness comes strength... the strength and peace of death.

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The greatest and ultimate comfort is death. Only death solves problems. Only in death is there true peace. All great people know this. Remember Macbeth: "He shall no more be tormented by the fever of life." Remember the rapture of Tristan and Isolde. Love and death. Love and death. But the greatest is still death.

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One should always prepare for the worst. You can't imagine how much it calms the nerves. You immediately think that it can't be as bad as you imagined.

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Love has a very bad effect on men. It makes their brains hurt. Women, on the contrary, feel magnificent, almost radiant and twice as pretty as otherwise. It's funny, isn't it, that love is good for women, and it makes men look like sick sheep.

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When a person has to thank you for everything, and constantly say things like how nice of you, and the like, then the person gets a little rotten inside, and for the sake of a change, he wants to say something nice... But when he finally gets the chance, he and finds himself going too far.

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Blind hatred... yes, blind hatred. But even a blind man can accidentally stab someone in the heart.

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I'm not really stupid. They think so. People have no idea that I know exactly what they are and I really hate them.

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What is this something that one woman has and another does not have? Why is it that there is a woman who just says "the weather is bad today" and every man within earshot immediately rushes over to talk to her about the weather? Perhaps Providence sometimes misses the address when sending a package... I would have the right temperament for an Aphrodite face and figure. But something goes wrong, Aphrodite's temperament is given to some ugly little creature, and the other women angrily shout: "I can't imagine what men see in her. She's not even pretty!"

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If someone has always been looked over, often humiliated, or aroused impotent anger in him, and his life is already gray and aimless, I think he feels that if he works in the dark and finds, he is punishing those who are happy and comfortable in their own skin.

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One is simply curious. You know, I believe in the atmosphere of a place. People's thoughts and feelings seep into the furniture and the walls.

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Perfect features, crispy golden blonde hair, tall, wonderfully shaped figure! And she walked as befits a goddess, effortlessly, like someone swimming, and just kept coming closer and closer. A gorgeous, breathtakingly beautiful girl!

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Well, it wouldn't be good if we were all carved from the same tree. But it really hurts me when I see someone not living a full life. I enjoy every minute and I want others to feel the same way. Many people say that I must be bored to death because I spend my time here at the end of the world. It's out of the question, I say. I'm always busy and always happy!

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There are questions we don't ask because we're afraid of the answer.

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A common problem is half a problem, as they say.

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People are so proud of evil. It's strange, isn't it, that good people are never proud of their goodness. I think Christian humility plays a role in this. These people don't even know they're good.

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In my experience, truly evil people never brag. They simply keep silent about their evil. One only talks so much about one's sins if they are not serious. Sin is a miserable, vile, evil, disgraceful thing. That's why it's so important to see them as big and significant.

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People cannot be helped. At least I can't. Only the Lord God can call to repentance, I think you know that yourself.

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Science has expanded the boundaries.

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Dear sir, why do you think people have been going to fortune tellers, sorcerers, and butter people for centuries? For just two reasons. They only risked damnation for two reasons. Either for the love potion or the poison cup.

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You can't dismiss everything as superstition, fear or bigotry. Elemental truths and elemental forces do exist. They have always existed. And they will exist.

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We can't discount evil so much that it doesn't exist. Evil does exist. And strong. Sometimes stronger than good. It's the truth. It must be recognized and fought against. Otherwise (...) the darkness will swallow us up.

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Witchcraft is an interesting thing (...). It can be found everywhere in the world, just in different forms.

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You should retire when you can still enjoy life.

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If only one didn't have so much time to think! I don't like having time to think. I always get upset like that.

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Behind me, the espresso machine hissed like an angry snake. There was something sinister in that voice, not to say diabolical. This reminded me that most of today's noises have this color. Jet planes cut through the sky with a terrifying, angry scream, the underground rumble coming out of the tunnel is slow and menacing, huge road transports shake the foundations of houses... Today's smaller household noises, however useful, require some kind of preparedness. Also dishwashers, refrigerators, kettles, and squeaky vacuum cleaners. - Be careful - that's what everyone seems to be saying. - I'm a tamed genie at your service, but if you don't keep me in check... The world is dangerous - that's what it's about, the world is dangerous.

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Les femmes, they are all prone to jealousy, and sometimes the ones you least expect.

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Most girls are neurotic, especially during adolescence. At this time, all of them are still immature and need help, especially in the area of ​​love. They are still unable to choose the right partner, and are mostly attracted to people who get them into trouble. It seems that in our time there are very few parents with strong character who can protect their daughter from such dangers. In such cases, the girls suffer and become hysterical. In the worst case, they get married recklessly, which ends in divorce in a short time.

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We know so many people from the newspapers! Everyone stares at them in awe. It doesn't show on them, but they are complete idiots. I know. You'd be surprised if you guessed how big of a mistake each big dog made.

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Children feel the same way every day. They get angry and say to their parents: "You are evil! I hate you! I wish you would die!" Mothers - as sensible, sane creatures - do not take it for granted, nor do they pay attention. But when we grow up, we can still hate, but we no longer want to kill out of hate. Or if we do... well, we go to jail.

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Humans have a natural defense mechanism that prevents them from crossing that certain limit at the right moment.

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No one likes to feel sorry, especially if they made the mistake.

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People are never what we remember them to be. If we want to keep them pretty and nice, we magnify these qualities in our imagination. Over the years, we increasingly transform their memory into the way we want to see them.

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People remember. Especially old people. Not for recent events, but for old things, say twenty years ago. (...) They can say important things about public figures or old scandals.

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It's strange how people stick to their jobs, how they want to do the same thing forever!

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There's something about these new housing estates that make people look askance at their neighbors. Maybe because we are all new here. What they are capable of scheming, gossiping, writing to the council, and all that, my mind stops! In real cities, people just don't get to do that.

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Why shouldn't I hate it? He did the worst thing a person can do to another person. He made me believe he loved me and needed me, then he proved that it was all a lie.

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Children suffer from this sort of thing. (...) Better than their environment would ever think. The pain, the rejection, the lack of belonging. This is something that cannot be remedied with just favorable living conditions. It cannot be replaced by education, a comfortable home, a secure income or starting capital for a profession.

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There is no such thing as eternal continuous rapture. We are very lucky if we manage to live in calm and contented affection, in serene and sober happiness.

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He was the kind of individual who keeps talking about what he did, what he saw, or what he felt, or what he heard. He never talked about what anyone else said or did. For such people, life is like a one-way street... they only perceive their own path in it. To them, other people are just... like wallpaper on the wall.

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Most people have some instinct for self-preservation. They know in front of whom it is not advisable to say or do this or that.

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He always did what he asked and left everything to him (...), but that doesn't always mean you love someone, does it? It could also be that he just doesn't have the courage to contradict himself.

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Being a grandmother is a great thing. Man has no parental responsibility.

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Young doctors are all the same. (...) They immediately measure the person's blood pressure, and no matter what the problem is, they prescribe some factory-produced, new type of pill. Pink, brown, yellow. Nowadays, healing is like the supermarket: full of packaged things.

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You fall in love with a man and marry him and get used to all his bugs and settle down nice and cozy - and then you catch yourself and kick it all over to start all over again! Complete madness!

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She loved to shop. It was the salt of life for him. One meets acquaintances and can chat a bit, gossip with the vendors, and have a chance to look at the various goods in the various shops. And you can spend a long time doing these pleasurable activities without feeling guilty about missing out.

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In a sense, of course, nothing is the same anymore. One can blame the war (both wars), or young people, or working women, or the atomic bomb, or simply the government - but really, it's about getting older.

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To one who pays attention, a lie says at least as much as the truth. Sometimes more.

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Such is life! (...) It does not allow itself to be neatly arranged as we would like. He doesn't let us get away with emotions, to live only according to the rules of reason and reason! It's no use saying: "I want to feel this much, no more!"

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One beautiful spring morning, a girl's face appears, and the well-organized order of existence is suddenly overturned.

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Most men are like this: they avoid the sick room if possible. They can't help it, that's their nature. And that doesn't mean they don't have a good feeling, they're simply afraid of what might disturb their psyche.

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I'll tell you something. Whether you had a father or not doesn't matter anymore. Kids these days don't care much about their parents, as far as I can see, and the parents aren't really there for their kids either. Either way, it is unnecessary to dwell on the past and be sensitive. He who lives, let him live, he can't do anything else, and it's certainly not always easy!

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It's not smart to love someone too much. It happens quite often with teenage girls.

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Man does what he thinks is best, but it is so difficult to decide what is good and what is right.

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You know (...) I think ours will be a perfect marriage. We love each other, but without exaggeration. We are friends. Our tastes are roughly the same. We know everything about each other. We enjoy all the advantages of consanguinity without suffering the disadvantages of consanguinity. I never get bored of you, you are such an elusive being.

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There are women who are so... I don't know, so attached to a man... they cling to him with adoration and doglike loyalty, and everything around them is sticky with emotion. I can't stand that kind of thing. With you, you never know... I can never be quite sure. It can happen at any moment that you let me know in your cool and dispassionate manner that you have changed your mind, just like that, simply, without even batting an eye. You are an exciting woman! Like a work of art... finished, perfect!

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It's a silly thing for a man - an everyday, yes, a perfectly everyday young man - to have such an effect on a person! It is enough to look at him, and the world starts to swirl around him, and when he speaks, he would like to cry. They say love is all beauty - and he is always so full of tension that it almost hurts.

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If someone lies with his mouth, sometimes he tells the truth with his eyes.

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Human character is unknowable until the day of testing comes. For most of us, this test comes early in life. One is soon confronted with the fact that one must stand on one's own two feet, face dangers and difficulties, and deal with them in one's own way. Which can be a straight way or can be fraudulent - but either way, you usually find out early on what kind of wood it was carved from.

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They believe (...) that the price of our sins is death. But it happens that luxury comes at a price. I don't know which is more unbearable. Far from intimate family life, the true value of which is only understood when there is no way back.

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There are people (...) with whom we sympathize deeply... with whom we deeply pity, because they carry a huge burden.

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I have changed. I left for three... four years. And now that I'm back, I'm different than when I left. And this tragedy is everywhere. Anyone who came home as a different person has to fit in again. If a person leaves and lives differently, he will inevitably change in the meantime!

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If a person is asked something to which he knows the answer, it is not at all difficult for him to perform magic effectively.

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Decent people who do something dishonest like to keep up appearances. They like to serve things in such a way that they stay clean...

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This is the problem everywhere (...). I've been seeing this since I just took it down. The war left it to us. Malice. Hostility. It's everywhere. On the train, the bus, in the shops, among the workers, the officials, and even among the peasants. In mines and factories, I think the situation is even worse.

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It often happens to calm, thoughtful, law-abiding women that they get involved with dark villains.

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Only men can truly judge men.

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Yet at this moment she was only a mother, only a mother, and nothing else - someone who wanted to protect her child by any means, fair or foul. He would have been willing to fight tooth and nail.

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Happy people don't do anything because they are in such a good relationship with themselves that they whistle at everything.

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Most successful people are unhappy. But that is precisely why they are successful - they are always forced to draw confidence from achieving something that the world notices.

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He knew that few women could love as intensely and hopelessly as she did! She would gladly have died for her husband; he was ready to lie, cheat, suffer for it! Instead, he proudly and reservedly accepted the place assigned to him.

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It doesn't matter if someone dies if they live on in people's memories.

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What impossible nonsense people do when they are in love! It didn't sound so silly at the time, but like this, more calmly warmed up! Why can't women forget things like that? Men don't like to be constantly reminded of what asses they were.

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The problem was that they met too often. You can't keep a relationship at a boiling point all the time. They need to meet less often - they need to relax a little.

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I enjoy being evil. Yes. (...) I enjoy it infinitely. I've seen a lot in life, Ruth. I've tried almost everything. I was an actor, shopkeeper, waiter, helper, porter and circus prop! I served as a sailor on a cargo ship. I took part in the presidential election campaign in a South American republic. I was in prison! There are only two things I haven't done yet: I haven't roboted honestly for a single day, and I've never covered my own expenses.

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One does not think about one's mother, father, sister or aunt. They simply exist, immediate family members, without any question marks. One does not think of them as people. You don't even ask yourself what they are like.

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Life is like a train (...). Goes on. And it's good that it is. (...) Because the train will eventually reach its destination.

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The mirror reflects reality, but everyone looks at it from a different angle. (...) People look at the mirror from different directions, but the mirror is the same and the same things are reflected in it.

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When a man is courting someone, he can be cordial, gallant, shower her with small attentions, and generally behave charmingly. But if he's really in love, he can only look at her sheepishly.

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It is not easy to get someone who has listened a lot to speak, he keeps his joys and sorrows to himself, he does not tell anyone.

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There isn't a woman who doesn't make a fool of herself once in her life.

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Three things cannot be rushed: le bon Dieu, nature and the elderly.

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I've seen a lot in this world, and I know that two things are definitely true. A good man can be ruined by loving a bad woman, but the opposite is also true. Even a bad man can be destroyed by his love for a good woman.

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Everything should be white or black, everything should be clearly outlined and well defined. But life is not like that, Mademoiselle! Certain things haven't fallen yet, they're just casting their shadows ahead.

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You have a bad reputation, but women... women are not intimidated by such things. If you were a man of excellent character, a man of solid morals, who had never done anything in his life that he shouldn't have done, but had perhaps done everything he had to do - eh bien! - then I would have serious doubts about its success. You see, moral excellence is not a romantic quality. Although widows tend to value it...

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When the woman is angry, she pays little attention to the strict truth of her statements.

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An angry woman (...) always says more than she should, and therefore a thoughtful man who keeps his composure can sometimes benefit from her.

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If our criminals didn't lose their minds, if they behaved smartly, how would we catch them?

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Something completely impossible: getting women to listen to common sense! It's like they're missing a wheel! They can talk to me about women's instincts, countries and the world know that they are easy prey for rogue chicken-catchers! There is not one in ten who realizes that he is facing a villain; any handsome, smooth-mannered chick can take advantage of them!

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A lot of men would be better off marrying themselves than those Seleburd frisbees running around these days showing off more of themselves than the Creator ever intended.

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Being tied to one place frees the imagination. One can roam free.

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You can't give up. But I've learned, and you have to learn, that sometimes it's the only solution.

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When it is a matter of life and death, one should not be concerned with one's own trivial problems.

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Humility is a huge thing. I remember that during the war there was a slogan plastered everywhere in the underground on the walls: "Everything depends on you or you fall." I guess some excellent psychologist came up with it, but I think it's a dangerous and harmful idea. Because it's not true. It is not true that that particular "everything," say, Mrs. Blanken, who lives in Little-Blank-in-the-Marsh, stands or falls. And if they do believe him, it will have a very bad effect on him. While you are thinking about how you can use yourself in world politics, your child pulls the teapot on himself and scalds himself.

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One can never go back. (...) The essence of life is to keep moving forward. There's only one-way traffic in life, right?

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Sometimes an unbridgeable chasm separates the past from the future. If someone has walked through the valley of the shadow of death and steps out into the bright sunlight again... then, mon cher, a new life begins for him. He has nothing to do with the past.

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After all, it's always been like that. Bad. Bad, to the core, and...attractive. He has a brilliant mind and doesn't shy away from taking risks. She's always been a risk-taker, and because she's so attractive and relatable, everyone's always assumed the best about her, not the worst.

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But we are fallible, sometimes we fall in love with the sinner unintentionally.

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How strange that she gave her heart to Rex Donaldson! There are also loves in his company, because life is not life without it, but why should such a thing be taken seriously? One comes, the other goes... But Rex Donaldson is different. Her affection for Rex is simple, deep and strong. You need Rex. His calm calmness and abstract thinking are quite different from what he was used to in his cheerful, superficial life. Logical, scientific mind; however, there is strength behind his aloof, somewhat pedantic demeanor. And genius! Rex's work is first and foremost - she, Theresa, can only be a part (albeit a pleasant part) of Rex's life. And the selfish, superficial Theresa, for the first time in her life, felt that she accepted - in fact, gladly accepted - this subordinate role. Because he can do anything, yes, anything for Rex!

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In the case of nervous disorders, the patient often turns to strangers and at the same time loses trust in those closest to him.

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It is always a certain shock to meet someone whom we have not seen for a long time, but who has occupied our thoughts incessantly.

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A woman is either afraid of her husband - or she is afraid of him.

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- I don't even know why dogs bark at the postman (...) - Because they have logic. The dog is a rational being; draw your own conclusions. He soon learns that some people are allowed to enter the house - some are not. Eh bien, who is the person who most often wants to enter, sometimes knocks two or three times a day - and is never allowed in? The postman. From a dog's point of view, it is therefore obvious that he is an undesirable person whose place is outside the door. They don't let him in: yet he always comes back. So what is the duty of a good dog: it helps chase away unwanted visitors, and even tries to bite them if possible - to teach them to behave. He claims to think logically above the norm.

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"Do you know who you remind me of, Poirot?" - I don't know what. - To the circus juggler who throws colorful balls. And all his balls are in the air at the same time. - Are the colorful balls my colorful lies in this case? - Pretty much. - And one fine day, do you think all the balls will suddenly fall to the ground? - They can't stay in the air forever.

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Stupidity does not preclude cunning.

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It is not right for a person to be influenced by his personal reactions in judging others. We should not rely on our feelings.

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I believe that there is always a way to solve something if you put your worries aside.

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If you lie, try to lie artistically, tell romantic, interesting, convincing lies!

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You are still young, my daughter. He doesn't yet know how much will to live was squeezed into old people. Those who have understood the seventy years will not give up anytime soon. It wants to live for decades to come.

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We have to make allowances for the age in which we live.

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He had that ever-hungry, inquiring curiosity about life which is characteristic of men of contemplation but not of men of action.

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It is very difficult to like a man who can do everything a little better than we can for a long time.

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In this life, things happen all the time that you don't expect.

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So many good-hearted people have no sense.

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If you only look at one side of things, you only see one side (...). But everything falls into place perfectly when you can decide in your head what is reality and what is illusion.

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When we got married, we didn't know much about each other, almost nothing about the other's kinship and family background. We thought it didn't matter. We thought nothing mattered but that we felt cool with each other. Well, the first round is over.

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How many people go to places, he wondered, where they would very much like no one to see them!

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You need to talk. A lot. Whoever talks a lot sooner or later tells the truth or tells a lie to betray himself.

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Everyone is constantly being educated or further trained. This is how independent ideas and thoughts are born in the brain. They come home and say what they think. But the problem is that they were not taught to think. At least not most of them.

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Memory is a wonderful gift. With its help, the past never becomes the past.

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A doctor must always observe his patients, their facial expression, their complexion, the speed of their breathing, the slightest sign of restlessness - a doctor notices all this automatically, without being aware of the perception.

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How difficult is the life of a doctor! (...) He is always vulnerable to blackmail. Even the most innocent cases sometimes smell of scandal. A doctor must avoid even the shadow of evil, that is, he must be constantly on the lookout.

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- Although the details may differ, the essence is the same. Strange as it may seem, this is how the criminal always reveals himself. - Man is an animal devoid of all originality.

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If someone suspects a secret, nothing is easier than confirming the suspicion.

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A frightened, nervous person can easily be driven to despair. When cornered, he behaves like a rat.

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Killers look and act a lot like ordinary people. They are kind, quiet, well-mannered and often very intelligent.

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Has it ever happened that you bit into a beautiful, red apple and a disgusting worm looked back from next to the core? There are many such people today. I have to say, more and more.

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Love disappointment often works to the advantage of young girls. They take life more seriously than him.

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Anyone who doesn't take advantage of the opportunity is a fool.

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Ladies, however delightful, have the disadvantage of distracting the mind from food.

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Gossip is often instructive and useful.

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I have always thought it interesting (...) what people see when they are overcome with great excitement or nervous tension. What they see - and even more interestingly, what they don't see.

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I guess kids don't need their parents until they get into trouble.

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I don't think there is a sadder sight than the destructive work of age on a person.

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Things never happen when we expect them.

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And some girls who have brains tend to become idiots, don't they?

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It's interesting how a man can feel like a fool under the influence of a gentle, curious little old lady!

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- I can hate better than love. (...) - Hate doesn't last long. Love does. - This is true? - I believe in this.

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It's amazing what the awareness of one's own beauty can do to a girl.

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I don't know what a man's feelings are when he starts courting girls. I imagine his throat is dry, his collar seems too tight, and he's sadly nervous. I didn't feel that way at all. I thought it was a good idea and wanted to implement it as soon as possible. I saw no particular reason to be embarrassed.

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I like walking at night. No one stops me or says stupid things and I love the stars too. Things smell better and everyday things seem mysterious.

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It's strange how old beliefs persist. (...) In early Christian times, local superstitions were wisely merged with Christian doctrines, so that the more unpleasant features were gradually removed.

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Every man has his own way of conquering the female sex.

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- I did not do anything! - Women always say that.

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You know what men are like! If a girl is constantly there, making his life comfortable, taking care of him and obviously fond of children... well, sooner or later she will fall into his web.

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Of course, murder is not one of the everyday cases of a doctor, but his profession also involves encountering suffering, the bad side of human existence, and the fact of death.

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You have to put yourself in the person's situation, you have to know how he feels and why he does what he does, and then... maybe then you will also know what he will do.

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If I wasn't young and quite pretty and I couldn't enjoy myself if - how can I say it? - I would be behind bars watching people enjoy life, a dark, evil feeling would come over me and I would want to cause pain and torture... maybe even destroy.

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How much do we know? Much more, at least I think, than we realized we knew. But we are not able to break through to this subconscious knowledge. It exists, but we cannot reach it.

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One thing is certain about nannies: they are used to doing what they are told. It is not their job to blame things.

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A man cannot allow a woman to make a fool of him. It's up to him if it does happen.

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That inner, fraught unhappiness... it's like an arm with blood poisoning, black and swollen. It must be cut off so that the poison does not cause damage.

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To preach about eternal teachings and to administer the sacraments. That's the pastor's job, but if pastors can get married at all, I think it's the wife's job to know people's feelings and thoughts even if she can't relate to them.

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I am unwanted and I know very well why. Mom doesn't like me at all. I think I remind him of my father who was rough with him and quite cruel as I hear. But mothers don't say they don't want their children and can't send them away. They can't even eat it. Cats eat kittens they don't like. I think that's awfully reasonable. No problem, no hassle. But human mothers must hold and care for their children.

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Ordinary curiosity is stronger than shyness.

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Nothing can be taken for work, neither for women nor for men. The only unpardonable sin is inaction.

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Sooner or later, even the blind shooter will hit his target.

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There are chapters in everyone's life that one hopes will never end.

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Even a blind person can find someone at heart by pure chance.

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I have never been able to accept the simple explanation that education is the cure-all.

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Interesting, isn't it? There are people who have amazing looks, but they don't even have any attractiveness.

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How strange that a girl, until she speaks, can stir one's deepest emotions, but the moment she speaks, the charm disappears as if it had never existed. True, the opposite has already happened.

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- My dear, don't you ever wait impatiently for something to happen? Megan considered the question, then answered, - No. Why would I wait? Nothing should be impatiently waited for. Nothing happens anyway.

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I can't imagine anything more unbearable than being visited by regretful acquaintances full of their own problems.

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In the past, there were smart and talented people who made a lot of money with their brains and talent. Many times they have been working in secret and we need to uncover them. We need to know who was given the secret and who controls the world today.

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You know, money is a thing to love. I'm not simply talking about wealth, so that you can, for example, buy yourself a bigger house or even a Rolls Royce. It is about when money is made for money's sake, and with this money they want to eliminate the old idea and belief. The belief in honor, decency, fair trade. We don't need equality. The strong should help the weak, the rich should help the poor. It should be achieved that decent and honest people are looked up to. Money! It all boils down to money.

"

The horse is a wonderful animal (...), you never know what it will do in the next moment. It's been like this since the Trojan Horse.

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It's hard to tell. That is, who is the enemy and who is the friend. And often, by the time it turns out, it's already too late.

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- What does the past have to do with the present? - You'd think nothing. But there is always something left that is not necessarily pleasant.

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We know everything, but we don't always share what we know.

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When people come together, it's amazing what they can achieve. And they can persuade others to do many things.

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One cannot erase one's past. Neither when it's good nor when it's bad (...), it's not forgotten whether someone is a criminal or a hero.

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- Are you saying that what is past is past, and what happened in the past has nothing to do with today? But there is! (...) Things are connected in such a strange way that an ordinary mortal would not imagine! - So something is happening now because something else happened in the past? - Like this. Chain reaction. Causal relationship. It's like a string of pearls. Pearl, chain links, then another pearl.

"

We believe that we can no longer be surprised, because we have been through so much, wars, revolutions, peace agreements, government crises and new governments. We're stupid though. What do we know about environmental pollution? About the effects of unknown gases? Even chemists have secrets, so does the navy, the army, the air force, everyone. And these are not just today's secrets. There have been military developments in the past that were abandoned for one reason or another, and now they may have been brought up again.

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- You know, now that you've reached maturity, I'm afraid that you're having dangerous thoughts about beautiful, helpful companions. - You can't respect your faithful husband (...). - My girlfriends are all of the opinion that you never know with a husband. - Then you chose the wrong girlfriends.

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I don't consider anything unimaginable anymore. (...) At least that much I learned. In reality, anything can happen. The most incredible things turn out to be real dangers.

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The past did not remain unaffected. The consequences are palpable.

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Children don't care about money. They can also play well with a piece of scrap string. A stuffed teddy bear with button eyes can also be their favorite. Children relate to games in their own way.

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People hear about so many things (...) and you never know what they misunderstood. I mean, did they really hear what they were talking about. Or whether they heard the truth at all.

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Just because something happened in the past doesn't mean it doesn't have anything to do with the present. You can explain some things.

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Some climb to the top, some are pushed up.

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- I just want to know the facts. Just knowing. Such is human nature. That's why we discover things. That's why we fly to the moon, that's why we land in the depths of the seas, that's why we want the natural gases of the North Sea to supply us with oxygen, not the trees and plants of the forest. We are forever searching. Just out of curiosity. Without curiosity, we would be like the tortoise. He lives a very comfortable life. He sleeps in winter and lives in summer. Not interesting, but very peaceful. On the other hand... - On the other hand, humans are similar to mongooses.

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People always talk about old friends and what happened to them. And it turns out that they're either dead, which surprises you terribly, because you don't even remember that they're mortal, or they're not dead yet, which surprises you even more. This world is complicated.

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What a wonderful thing (...) that one can eat different things for breakfast. For a long time, he only had coffee and either orange juice or grapefruit juice for breakfast. This is a great thing as long as you watch your weight and solve your weight problems, but you are depriving yourself of the experience of a rich breakfast.

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After a certain age, if you manage to achieve it, you practically live forever.

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A lot of things are true, I just can't believe them.

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Older ladies often have very valuable information. Older ladies and children under five. Sometimes we learn the truth from those we least expect.

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Traitors are usually the most trusted people. Whom no one would ever suspect.

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What a great thing it is when a person makes up all sorts of things and really believes in them.

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You know, there are things you don't forget. No matter how long ago it happened, something triggers the memory in a person, and the past as it was is already crystal clear in front of him.

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You know, I realized that gardeners are made of hard wood. The really good gardeners live into their eighties. If you stumble upon a strong, muscular young man in his thirties who supposedly always wanted to be a gardener, it's almost certain that he's not at all cut out for the job. He is only willing to collect the chaff, and if you entrust him with a more serious task or work, he will immediately make the excuse that it is not yet ready for the season. And since people, at least I'm like that, never know for sure when what's in season, these supposed gardeners must be doing well.

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One must always hope. This is life's greatest gift. The hope. I've always hoped.

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I think you are one of those people who would rather face the truth than live in a false heaven.

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An artist cannot be satisfied with art alone. Even though he denies it, he has a natural desire for recognition.

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Keeping a secret is an art that requires the magnificent performance of many lies, as well as a talent for and enjoyment of comedy.

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It's always darkest before dawn.

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Sin never escapes its punishment (...). But the punishment is sometimes secret.

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There comes a moment for all of us, Mademoiselle, when death is more desirable than life. But it will pass - sorrow and grief will pass. You can't believe it now, I know.

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- Luck, they say, is fickle (...). - Maybe. In any case, it is useless to fight against it.

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When one has eliminated the other possibilities, one turns to the one that remains and says - since there is no other - this must be...

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Whatever feelings a person may have, it is not right to make a big deal out of them. It's just embarrassing for everyone else.

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Never give up! That's my motto. Don't think about the problem and it won't be a problem.

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Waiting... is the worst. Constantly wondering what else is going on. And how? And waiting for it to happen.

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- The strange little facts. I love when they pop up. They mean a lot. They will show you the way. - The road? But where? - He pointed out the weak point (...). Unfortunately, we won't know until we get there.

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Go there not as a boy, but as a man. (...) As a man who has been ravaged by the adversities of the past and present, but who still looks forward, towards a new and a more beautiful life. Ask him to stick by your side. Consider that their love for each other has really stood the test of murderous fire. Both were willing to sacrifice their lives for each other. Don't you need more proof than that?

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- I was so unscrupulous, so dishonest! (...) - We are all like that at one time or another in our lives.

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Hiding the past does not make it unhappened.

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It is strange (...) how much women are loathe to destroy the most compromising objects and evidence for them.

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The human soul unconsciously defends itself against all originality.

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Organize your thoughts, draw conclusions methodically, this is the secret of success!

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- So you attach importance to birth and upbringing? - You may think it's old-fashioned, but I don't think anything good comes from marrying someone from a different social class. - I completely agree with you, my friend. In ninety-nine out of a hundred cases, this is indeed the case. But it's usually the hundredth case, if it's their turn, because that's what young people hope for.

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If something preoccupies a person's world of thoughts, it drives everything else out of it, so that there is nothing else to talk about.

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We are in complete darkness, a hundred contradictory phenomena disturb and confuse us. Even better. Confusion will lead to order.

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Method, my friend, method. (...) That's all. Thoughts must be organized, and if a small fact or phenomenon does not fit into the system, it should not be discarded, but should be examined all the more. Even if you don't immediately notice its importance, you can be sure that it can become very important.

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There is no real originality in people, neither in their everyday lives nor when they cross legal boundaries. Once someone has committed a crime, the rest that follow will be similar to the first.

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Some people think that if we learned how to do it, we could remember the future just as we can recall events from the past. Of course, as I say, it's all nonsense, but I know that there is a well-founded theory. And I also believe that there is something in us that really knows what awaits us in the future. This also explains why we sometimes shy away from certain things. We know that our destiny is about to place a great burden on us, and we try to get away from it.

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Only man was given eternal life. What is this if not arrogance? And yet we believe in it.

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Man worshiped the stone and built Stonehenge. But those who built it are now gone, but Stonehenge still stands. And yet, strange as it may sound, those people live on in me and you and all their descendants, and the stone, the stones of Stonehenge, are dead. That which should perish survives, and that which seems to live permanently is actually dead. What a paradox!

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The dead want us to brave our losses and just live like before, right? Just don't be sad! Everyone says this, but for my part, I have never experienced that there is any basis for this, otherwise truly comforting idea. And, of course, this was also invented by the living to make their work easier. Because you see, no matter what, the living don't always agree, so I don't see why the dead would be so unanimous. If there is an afterlife at all, I think there are just as many selfish souls over there as there are here on earth. After all, it would be impossible for those who were full of all kinds of feelings in their lives to strip themselves of all evil in a single moment and put on the cloak of altruism and goodness. I have to laugh. Imagine a widower sitting down to breakfast the morning after a funeral exclaiming, "Mary wouldn't want me to be sad," and devouring everything in sight with a good appetite. How do you know what Mary is thinking over there? She may weep and gnash her teeth—her astral teeth, of course—seeing her husband go on as if he had never existed. After all, most women like their husbands to jump around them. Why would a person's character change after death?

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Even the most innocent person loses his head and does unthinkable things when suddenly threatened.

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If everyone is lying, we are just as confused by it as if everyone is telling the truth.

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The kindest, most lovable people are not necessarily the most skilled.

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A small consolation, but a consolation nonetheless.

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It is never wise to flaunt what you know. I keep everything here until the last moment - he tapped her forehead. - Then at the right moment... I strike... like a panther... and mon Dieu! Then there is consternation!

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The cat only obeys its instincts when it plays with the mouse! It was created that way. Men are not little boys to be guarded and protected. They have to meet feline women... and loyal spaniels, and I-love-you-to-death women, and nagging, smacking, snarky brooding hens... and all kinds of women! Life is a battlefield... it's not easy!

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- A susceptible child is easily prone to hero worship, and an obsession that persists even in adulthood can easily take root in the young soul. - True. (...) The common view that children forget easily does not correspond to reality. Many people are held captive throughout their lives by an idea that was planted in them in their tender childhood.

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It is said that you know nothing about the dead. I think that's stupid. The truth will always be the truth. All in all, it's better if people keep their mouths shut about the living. You might offend them. The dead are beyond that. But the mess they caused may outlive them.

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There is no man for whom it would be safe to tell the truth about his wife! It's funny, but I trust women more. They can tell the truth about their husbands. Women are willing to accept without batting an eye the fact that their husbands are scumbags, swindlers, drug addicts and inveterate liars, usually last hogs... without it affecting their feelings for the chick in the slightest. It's amazing how realistic women are.

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Somehow, the older I get and the more I see, people, sadness, illness, and everything, the more I feel sorry for everyone. I can say, sometimes I don't know what has become of the good old, strict principles that my aunt raised me to follow. She was a very religious woman and extremely delicate. We didn't have a neighbor who didn't know all his mistakes back and forth.

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The state of mind of a community depends directly on the leader.

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I have already talked about women who have magical powers that bring trouble. But men also have such magical powers. There are men who effortlessly attract women. This is called a sex pill these days!

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There is no hatred so strong as that of a man who is forced to love against his will.

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It is a well-known fact that we all tend to deceive ourselves about the motives of our actions. We instinctively choose the motive that sounds best!

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I myself am quite biased in favor of liars. A woman who does not lie has no imagination and no compassion.

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It's amazing how children don't forget when they've been traumatized.

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It's a strange world, I thought that two people see the same thing in exactly the opposite way.

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Archaeologists only look at what lies before their feet. Heaven and heaven do not exist for them.

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In a closed community, a person will tend to be petty.

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For a balanced, thinking mind (...) there is no place for the play of instincts, we do not find the truth by inner inspiration. Of course you can guess; you either succeed or you don't. If we succeed, we say that we have instinctively felt the right answer. If it doesn't work out, we won't talk about it anymore. But what we often call a gut feeling is actually a logical conclusion or an impression based on experience. When an expert feels that something is wrong with a painting, a piece of furniture or a signature on a check, in fact a whole host of small signs and details react with this feeling. You don't have to go into details, your experience is enough, and the result is a definite impression of the disorder. But this is not an instinctive intuition, it is an impression based on experience.

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There is nothing more dangerous to someone with something to hide than conversation. Speech - a wise old Frenchman once told me - is an invention of man to prevent him from thinking. In addition, it is a foolproof tool for discovering what you want to keep secret. A human being cannot resist the opportunity offered by conversation to express his personality and to hide himself. And he always betrays himself!

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If someone is a big and important personality, then you have to spare him from minor annoyances. If a fly repeatedly lands on your forehead and you go crazy from being tickled... what do you do? He tries to swatt the fly. He is important, not the fly. He kills the fly: his annoyance is over. He considers his actions reasonable and justified. Another reason to kill the fly is if you happen to be passionate about cleanliness. The fly can spread infection, it is dangerous to society, the fly must be destroyed! The mind of a deranged criminal works in the same way.

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Women are very strange. They are unexpectedly cruel, and sometimes unexpectedly tender.

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Women, even the best ones, are somewhat bad faith in their judgment of other women.

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- First of all, red always follows black. (...) That's how it is in gambling. At roulette, only black wins for a long time, but according to its laws, the ball inevitably ends up on red. - He means that luck is fickle.

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I am never-ceasingly fascinated by the permutations and combinations of life.

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It's always worse for a doctor, because he understands. You can't hold on to false hopes.

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We cling to life in the shadow of death.

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The word, mademoiselle, is nothing more than the covering of thought.

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If someone thinks he says everything, he is inevitably selective. If I were to ask him to tell me what he did yesterday, he might say: "I got up at nine, I had breakfast at half past ten, coffee and scrambled eggs with bacon, then I went to my club" - and so on. He wouldn't say, for example, "I tore my nail and had to cut it. I asked for hot water to shave. I spilled a drop of coffee on the tablecloth. I brushed off my hat and put it on my head." We can't tell you everything, so we choose.

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There is nothing more terrible than living in an atmosphere of suspicion, feeling in the scrutinizing eyes attached to us, as love turns into fear. There is nothing more terrible than to suspect those who are close to us, whom we have closed in our hearts. Suspicion is a poisonous miasma.

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The experienced angler knows exactly which fish are biting and what.

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There is an amazing gap between the spoken word and the written word. A sentence can be twisted to mean the exact opposite of its original meaning.

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One of the most characteristic features of acute insanity is the deep-seated iron logic. There are those who believe that they are carrying out a divine mission when they kill priests, or doctors, or even old traffickers, and there is always a completely reasonable justification behind the act.

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- What is the unforgivable mistake? - Not noticing the obvious.

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We are all capable of roughly judging what time of day we are, whether it's morning or noon, maybe late afternoon or already evening, you see, we don't have to think about it, we know without it, and for that we don't need measuring instruments, sundials or hourglasses , wristwatch or wall clock. But if you have to rush to a meeting, or catch the train, if you have to be at a specific place on time, then you have to think and come up with tools that can help you be punctual. I think our attitude towards life is similar. Sometimes we are happy, sometimes we are unhappy, we are angry about something or resent someone, we like something or someone, or even the other way around: we can't stand it.

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In the eyes of women, love always comes first.

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Everyone judges other people from their own perspective. We are no different with things. As many people see trees or the sea in as many ways. No two painters, for example, depict the port of St. Loo in the same way.

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We all use our imaginations to escape from reality, to get as far away from ourselves as possible.

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The ground is the basis of civilized life, the ground that gives always only gives. In this world, houses are built and filled with items. A fertile, mothering world, in which it is much more complicated to survive, where there are hundreds and hundreds of possible ways to succeed and fail.

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Little by little (...) I began to realize that this world is based on a reality lived with passion, on the endless struggle for survival, and on hopes for the outcome of the struggle. This is a woman's world, not a man's. The man remains a hunter: uncaring, ragged, often hungry, and always trying to move forward, while the woman and child are lurking in his corner. In his world, there is no need for politics, only a good eye, a quick hand, and the prey is already his.

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Women are not interested in the stars, but in the four walls that provide shelter when the wind blows, they keep an eye on the simmering pot on the stove and look after the faces of well-fed, sleeping children.

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We are all in the great Time. And Time itself means nothing. Five minutes or a thousand years can be equally important.

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It's a strange thing: we secretly believe in something but don't want to admit it, and then when someone else says it, we angrily deny it.

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All the world's problems can be traced back to money... or the lack of it.

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Fortunately, words, if used skillfully, can mask the ugliness of naked facts.

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One really sees with the eyes of the mind.

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Be brave and face reality. Without this courage, life is not worth living. The one who hides the truth from us harms us the most.

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Life cannot be managed with wise sayings taken from modern literature. Don't forget that nature is wild and bloodthirsty.

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It is always better to face the truth. There is no point in avoiding unhappiness by falsifying the facts.

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There is a Spanish proverb, I have always loved it: take what you need, but pay the price, says God.

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Children usually know adults very well.

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This is despair (...). Freezing cold loneliness, bleak, dark desolation. I thought despair was a hot, passionate, wild thing, but it's not. The sin of despair that priests preach about is a cold sin, a sin of withdrawing from pulsating, warm, living human relationships.

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The puffs and cakes always show when the cook is in a bad mood.

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It seems I forced you to tell the truth.

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Never to forget... to wait... to make plans... to hope... to be determined with all your heart and soul, with all your strength, to achieve what you want in the end. There are such men.

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I myself am always confused about what is right and what is wrong... although it is easy to decide when what is right is unpleasant and what is wrong is pleasant, because then we know where we stand, but when it is the other way around, it is wrong, and in my opinion, of course, everyone do as you see fit.

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Where there's a kitchen maid, there's hope. My God, what will happen to us if no one keeps a kitchen maid anymore! The kitchen girls chatter. The cook and higher-ranking maids oppress her with their constant reprimands, so that it is only natural for her to ask what she knows and tell someone who is willing to listen.

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Thinking something because we want to think it won't get you anywhere.

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However, the eye is a very unreliable witness (...) More than once we only see what is intended for our eyes.

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Cooking offers a really wide space for the expression of emotional nuances.

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The suffering of the strong is the deepest.

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We always have to take some risk. And you have to do it quickly, without thinking about it too much.

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- Sometimes it's good to live in the past. - We can't go back. There is no way back, only forward.

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It is inconceivable that a doctor who devotes all his time to the diseases of others should be so indifferent to the health of his own family members. He always laughs when one of them complains of illness.

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He had long known how to lull himself to sleep when he wanted to. We take some of them out of the storehouse of our thoughts, but we don't grasp them, we don't delve into them, we let them slip through our consciousness, let them quietly eat away.

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It's strange how something can infiltrate a person without them knowing.

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Only now do I see that I have always loved him... Always, from the first minute. I was afraid of him precisely because I loved him so much. I was a coward in love, as in everything. I tried to hide from reality. I fought with Jane... I was ashamed that she had so much power over me... and I walked her through hell... And now I want her to death. You can say, of course, that it is typical that as soon as something becomes unattainable, the desire for it immediately awakens in me. You might be right. That I am like this. But I know that I love Jane, that I will always love her, and that now she has left me forever...

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Past and future exist at the same time (...), you can travel in time just like in space, the road takes you from one point to another.

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He wants to live there in the castle of his ancestors, he wants to marry the girl he loves, he wants to be rich and at the same time he wants to be a great composer. However, in order for even one of these four things to come true, you have to give all your energy. It is unlikely that you will get everything. Realize that life is not a fairy tale.

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Genius is a cruel giant. A monster that feeds on living flesh and blood.

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A lot of things just happen to you, you don't even have to look for them, they stumble into your life. Rather, it's that when fate offers you something, you can choose to accept it or reject it. But once you've made a decision, you have to move forward on your path, and it's better not to look back.

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You know, it's not the things that interest you, so to speak, but the things that don't leave you alone. You can't get rid of them, they keep stalking you. Like a face you see even when you don't want to.

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Everything turns out well in the end. While you are a child, adults encourage you with this, but later you experience it yourself.

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Sometimes the most amazing things are born out of sin, filth, and anarchy.

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If you get too close, you won't see things clearly.

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How is it that one is always late in getting what one longs for the most?

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I never liked to think. I felt it wasn't a very rewarding occupation, and in fact, I'm not even now convinced that it's really worthwhile.

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Music should be like mathematics, purely scientific. It should have nothing to do with drama, romance, or any other emotions, only the pure feeling that is born in us in the wake of sounds torn from ideas.

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The world has changed. Everything is different now than it was before. And it stays that way, never going back to where we started.

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Nature itself ensures that a wall of illusions and lies can be built, behind which one can hide, and in this situation it is easier to accept the cruel facts. It's a pathetic, beautiful thing that we promote ideas in which we want to believe.

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My sweet girl, the things that happen to us personally are always special.

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You can be smart or foresight, you can plan every step of your life, and if you are strong enough, you will accumulate success after success, but all the wisdom and caution in the world cannot save you from suffering.

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It is worse to be apart in time than in space. If you're not the right age, you can be hopelessly distant from someone, even though you might really be made for each other, yet...

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When something has a very strong effect on us, be it good or bad, one always wants to be sick.

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The older I get, the more firmly I am convinced that there is no creature more touching, ridiculous, absurd and wonderful than man.

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A man in love is a pitiful sight.

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However, it is not as common that the left foot ends up in the right shoe, as we might think at first sight. The majority of people, no matter what they say, end up choosing the profession they secretly wanted. How many office rats can be heard whining: "Why didn't I become an explorer instead! I would have liked a simple, hard, manly life in distant regions." Well, yes, they may really devour books on such topics, but in everyday life they cannot do without the comfort and safety of their desks.

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I think as you get older, you are disproportionately upset by the death of a young person. We old people expect to die.

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- It all depends on where you look at it. - This is a deep truth.

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Is that why you should become an architect? Those who want to build something decent don't have money, those who have money are guaranteed to want something insanely tasteless from the person.

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Where do our fears come from? How are they formed? Where are they hiding before we suddenly confront them?

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It's amazing how easily a gentle, curious, old, single lady can make a grown man see himself as a perfect idiot!

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- You don't even encourage me to hope? - What would be the point? "Nothing in the world," I said. - It was an unnecessary question, because whether you encourage me or not, I still hope so.

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- I'm in love with you. (...) - I think you are the nicest person in the world - but I am not in love with you. - I'll make you fall in love with me. - That's not good. I don't want you to do it. (...) I know how to hate better than to love.

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When people say that life in the countryside is boring, but life in the city is full of excitement, they have no idea what they are talking about (...) The last witches have moved into dilapidated mansions, decadent young people hold black mass in distant castles. In villages cut off from the world, superstition is commonplace. Middle-aged old ladies rattle their fake scarab chains, hold séances, writing boards are written by an invisible hand.

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All life is dangerous. Those of us who grew up on the brink of civilization tend to forget this. That's what civilization is all about, Easterbrook. A few people gather here and there to protect each other, and in this way they are able to outsmart nature and defeat it. They have conquered the jungle, but this victory is only temporary. The jungle will seize power again at any moment. The once proud cities have now become piles of rubble, overgrown with rampant vegetation, and miserable little people barely surviving. Life is always dangerous, never forget that. It may not be destroyed by great forces, but by the work of our own hands. Today we are very close to that happening.

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Evil is not superhuman, but somewhat subhuman. A criminal is someone who wants to be important but never will be because he will never be human.

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One can only imagine a think tank as a huge and sinister figure.

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Only a fool sweats. One must think and organize the campaign in every detail. The secret of success is very simple, but you have to figure it out. Something simple. A person thinks it up, practically implements it, and that's it.

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It was not beautiful, but unusual and striking. Personality. He went into the restaurant before me, and I felt that stupid male pride that we feel when we meet a special woman.

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I am now beginning to realize how wrong I am in judging people.

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If someone thinks that suicide is the way out of trouble, then it doesn't really matter what the trouble is.

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Evil in man is like cancer, a malignant tumor. It causes suffering.

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The boy she fell in love with appeared. He knew he was unreliable, he knew he was worthless, but nothing like that had ever turned a girl away from her boy. Certainly not. Young girls love chicken coops. Always loved. They fall in love with them and are convinced that they will change them. And in my time, the nice, good-natured, reliable husband candidates were told that they would love them as brothers, which they did not achieve in the least.

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If someone loves you with a strong enough love, they are willing to pay for it, even if the price is disappointment and a certain degree of unhappiness.

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Over time, hatred fades away. Even if we try to artificially keep him awake, it won't work. It's not as strong an emotion as love.

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Faith? It seems like a strange word to me. Do we believe in the Sun, the Moon, the chair we sit on, the ground we walk on? If a person knows something, what is the need to believe in it?

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Man cannot be given power. It rots, rots from the inside. How long could I go on without pride creeping into me? I suspect he has already started his work. In those moments when I spoke to large masses of people... did I not begin to think that I was speaking, that I was sending them a message, that I knew what they should or should not do, and that I was no longer just God's messenger, but God's advocate ? Do you understand? Promoted, exalted, man above men!

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A bad deed - and I don't mean bad here as evil, but as a mistake - immediately makes you feel its effect: it's like when you dance and miss a step, or sing falsely... offensive (...). If I were a woman, I'd say it's like dropping an eye while knitting.

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Don't you think (...) that a person must have a strong enough character to be able to endure Paradise?! Like those people who lived a long time ago, the blessed of whom sat in a row under the trees with crowns on their heads... I always thought that those crowns looked so heavy... and they took off their golden crowns in front of the glassy glistening sea. .. it's a church song, isn't it? Maybe God allowed them to take off the crown because it was so heavy. It's hard to wear a crown forever. You can't stand anything for long, can you? I think...

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You get into certain things and then you can't get out of them. Man pretends... he pretends every day. And then you get tired of it.

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- Then what should one do if one feels sorry for another person? - Leave him where he belongs... in God's hands. - That sounds very strict and blunt. - Not nearly as dangerous as giving in to superficial regret.

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All difficulties arise from this: we apply human values ​​to God, we wonder when he is just and when he is unjust. We don't have the faintest idea, nor can we, about what God really wants from man, except that God wants something that man is capable of, it just didn't occur to him until now.

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Sexual attraction cannot replace love, but goes along with it, it does not stand alone. To love with love is the same as the words of the wedding ceremony: for better, for worse, for better and for better, in sickness and in health, till death. This is what we do when we love someone and want to get married.

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I have come to know that we must accept our fellow humans as they are, along with their genetic endowments that determine their character.

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The girls are supposed to arrive earlier today. This is true in a physical sense, but if we look deeper, they mature and remain children much later. They dress childishly, their flowing hair is childish, and they even indulge in childishness with their miniskirts. The baby-doll nightgown, the printed leotards, the rows - children's fashion. They don't want to be adults - they don't want to take on the responsibilities that come with it. On the other hand, like all children, they wish to be considered adults and to be free to do whatever they consider adult things. And this often leads to tragedy.

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Looking for a sewing needle in a haystack. If you rummage around in it for a long time, you're sure to stumble upon something, even if you prick your finger in the process.

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Like all great financiers, he enjoyed the way of making money, a thousand ins and outs, not the money itself. He just needed it to make even more money in an even more interesting, even more comical way.

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You can guide a child's hand on the paper, but when you take your hand away, the child still has to learn to write on his own. Your action may actually have delayed the process.

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It's strange (...) how much joy it gives you when you can squeeze bright, shining colors onto a palette and spread them on a canvas! Sometimes you know what you want to do, and sometimes you don't, but it's always a pleasure.

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If a woman is selfless, it can be just as disastrous as someone taking up cake making with uninitiated hands.

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Unhappy? Most people are. In this life, you have to get used to unhappiness, like many other things. It takes courage to live from one day to the next, courage and a clear mind.

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The reader also has rights. The writer writes his book the way he likes it. You can do what you want with it. You can mess up the punctuation and fool around with the meaning of words as much as you want. But the reader can also read the book as he likes, the writer cannot prevent him from doing so.

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It's better for cats than for people (...). When they want to get rid of humans, they climb a tree. All we can do is lock ourselves in the toilet.

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I can't even imagine what was going through God's mind when he created the woman. I think he thought that Adam was getting a little too cocky and self-righteous; he imagines himself to be the master of the Universe, gives names to animals, and things like that... He thought it would be good to break his horn. Let's just say he was right about that. But he should not have created the woman. Look, he caught a cold, poor wretch! Once he was up to his neck in original sin.

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The trouble with the second child (...) is that it usually causes disillusionment. The arrival of the first child is an adventure. It's scary and painful: the woman is sure she's going to die, and the husband is also sure you're going to die. Once it's all done, you end up with a crumb of eager flesh that screams its lungs out, and that's why it took two people to go through hell to create it! Of course, they are evaluated accordingly. Brand new, ours, amazing! And then - usually too soon - Ketteske appears, the whole circus starts all over again; this time it's not so scary, it's more boring. And here it is, yours, but it's not new, and because you paid so much for it, it's not nearly as amazing.

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The dog (...) has an extraordinary ability to, as it were, subvert the human self. To the dog, the man who owns him is a god to be worshipped, and not only worshiped, but in this decadent phase of our civilization, loved. For most dog owners, the glory goes to their heads. It makes you feel important and powerful.

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If we know that someone is very rich, then somehow we don't ask any more questions. I mean, we don't want to know more than that. We call him "hugely rich" or "immeasurably rich" and lower our voices a little, because it's such a fascinating thing to know someone who is really immeasurably rich.

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Nowadays, men age so much faster than women. (...) I mean, they take everything more to heart, they work too much, they overexcite themselves. Then comes high blood pressure or low blood pressure, sometimes a little heart trouble. They are also quite prone to stomach ulcers. You know, I don't think we'd be that excited. We women are stronger.

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I often think how strange this world is. We sincerely hope that we will see someone again, and we are quite sure of it. Then time passes, and what a surprise when it happens all at once!

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You can't start blindly on something you know nothing about... It's like a crossword without definitions.

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In the course of my long life-long business activity, I have learned one thing: whoever I want to employ to do something should have a flair for that thing. Not knowledge and not experience, the only correct term is: have a sense, a natural aptitude for a certain thing.

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We are all fools (...). This is the secret of our existence. We're all a little crazy.

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I know what it's like to be poor. Not such a terrible tragedy. Of course, only if the person is young, strong and ready to work. I never had enough money to get where I wanted to go.

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If I want to write something down, I can write it down. I realized that a lot of people can't articulate. And like I said, I know basic math operations. If it is asked that Jones has eight sheep, but Brown takes ten from him, how many will remain with Jones - this is answered by the majority of people without batting an eye. They fail to admit, firstly, that Brown cannot take ten, and secondly, that there is no such thing as a negative sheep.

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We are not born equal - we have to balance the inequality given by nature.

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In every family (as I observed when I was a kid, and I haven't forgotten since then) there is an unusually strong character, and usually this person is assigned to take care of - and bear the burden of - the other members of the family.

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I don't think donations are really helpful. As a rule, they are not used for the right purpose. Enthusiasm, drive, and a broad outlook are not a function of money. Expensive equipment, costly training, and fortunes spent on experiments do not always live up to expectations. Most of the donations end up in the wrong hands.

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- I think that when the children grow up, you should separate yourself from them, move into the background, force them to forget. - Force it? That's a bit drastic, isn't it? Coercion is always wrong, no matter how it works.

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- After all these years, you cannot expect the results and success you are used to. We all have a stiff waist over time. Now let's give way to the youth. - And yet the old dog is the one who knows tricks, is cunning, and has a good sense of humor.

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Sitting motionless in an armchair and meditating is the habit of old people, who can only do this. But I will say that a young hound is often so eager to search that he runs over the tracks... he easily goes astray.

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There is no such thing as a messy affair - it may be obscure, but confusion only arises in the disordered mind.

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I have often observed that it is a great misfortune for a man to be loved by his wife. The wife stages scenes of jealousy, ridicules him, insists that he devote all his time and attention to her. It's not exactly a girl's dream either!

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The brain should work feverishly, not sink into a lazy torpor. The activity of the mind is so intriguing, so stimulating! The occupation of the small, gray brain cells is the source of mental pleasure. We can trust them and only them to lead us through the fog to the truth.

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If a person considers someone to be an absolutely honest and decent person, it doesn't even occur to him later that he might not be.

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It always gets on your nerves when others know more about you than you do.

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He who has something to hide cannot afford to speak. The boys in military intelligence knew this well in the war. If you are captured: tell your name, rank, number, but nothing else. Anyone who tries to provide false information almost always slips on a banana peel.

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If someone has committed murder, they will be very lonely. He wants to tell someone, but it's impossible. And that just makes you want it even more. So if he can no longer talk about how he committed it, he can at least talk about the murder itself - he discusses it, comes up with theories, dwells on it.

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I think people kill people they love more often than people they hate. Probably because only our loved ones can make our lives unbearable.

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When you talk about hate, you probably mean extreme hatred. Hate from jealousy is different - it comes from attraction and frustration.

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The child turns his desires into action without inhibition. If he gets mad at his cat, he says, "I'm going to kill you" and hits him on the head with a hammer - and then he's heartbroken that the cat won't get up! It often happens that the older child takes his baby brother out of the pram and tries to strangle him because he is the center of attention or because he won't let him play in peace. The child knows from an early age that this is "not allowed" - that is, that he will be punished for it. Later, he already feels that he is doing wrong. But I suspect that some remain morally immature.

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We can always have some doubts about everything (...). An unforeseen factor can always intervene and ruin our plans.

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People, no matter what they say, mostly pursue the occupation they have always wanted. For example, an official says: "I wish I could be an explorer and live in places behind God's back like a nomad". Then it turns out that he likes to read novels about this subject, but for his part, he really appreciates the safety and relative comfort of his desk.

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Everyone likes to talk about themselves (...). This is how charlatan soul divers make a lot of money. They get the patients to go to them and tell them about all kinds of things. How they fell out of the pram when they were two years old, how their mother ate the pear, the juice of which dripped onto her orange dress, how they pulled their father's beard when they were one and a half years old, and so on. And the charlatan tells them that they will no longer suffer from insomnia and asks for the money. The patient leaves, oh, he felt great, great - and maybe even sleeps well that day.

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As a writer, you have a big advantage over others (...). The power of the written word can ease your soul. With his pen he has power over his enemies.

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One earns money through work, one spends money through women - so the latter is a much nobler goal than the former.

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An English man first cares about his work - his job, as they say, then sports, and finally - last of all - his wife.

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Recognition (...) is a first-rate accessory in the con artist's toolbox!

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In all criminal cases, one experiences the same thing when questioning witnesses. Everyone keeps something for themselves. Sometimes - actually quite often - it's a harmless thing, something that maybe has nothing to do with what happened, but - I repeat - there's always something!

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I am wary of forming a false image of anyone based on what they tell me. Independently of everyone else, I form my own judgment.

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There is no successful crime without luck.

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It is human nature to always want to present oneself in the best possible light. This was one of my basic principles from school, sometimes I bragged a little, deviated a little from the truth, colored the reality somewhat. I've never been ashamed of that. I think it's a very natural thing. I think you have to do something like that if you want to take it to something. We have to create the best possible image of ourselves. Other people take over our self-esteem.

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There is nothing wrong with psychology if it is left to psychologists. The problem is that nowadays everyone is an amateur psychologist!

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A person's life is not at all governed by those things that can be called with such big words as love (...), life, death, hate. But a lot of petty, degrading things. Things that people have to endure and don't even think about until they happen.

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In many ways, rich women have it worst. The doctors provide them with a lot of powders, capsules, all kinds of stimulants and sedatives, which they really don't need. Village women are much healthier because they do not worry about their health.

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The poor really don't know how the rich live, the rich have no idea how the poor live, and it's a fascinating experience for both parties to learn about the other's lifestyle.

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I think it happens to everyone sooner or later, but then it comes suddenly. You don't think at all what you imagined before: "Maybe this is the girl for me... Maybe this is the girl who will be mine." At least I didn't feel that way. I didn't know it would suddenly hit me. And that I'm going to say, "This is the girl I belong to. I'm hers forever and ever." No. I never dreamed it would be like this!

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I am who I am. I'll stay Michael Rogers and travel the world and meet pretty women when I feel like it! Of course, it was a somewhat cramped lifestyle, but so far I've managed it. I enjoyed life and accepted that life is just a game. But then, I guess I couldn't have behaved any other way. Such a view of life goes hand in hand with youth. When this youth begins to pass, the pleasure is no longer real.

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They wanted me to start dating a decent girl, save the money, get married, then settle down and get myself a decent, steady job. Then the days pass in silence, year after year comes, the world never ends, amen. Thanks, but I'm not asking for that! It has to be better than this. I don't miss this monotony, I don't miss limping through my life in such a dull state. In this world, I thought, where they could shoot satellites into the sky, where they talk about how they will reach the stars, there must be something that makes one's heart beat, for which it is worth searching the whole world.

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You know, it's strange (...), but many, many years of mistakes have taught me to be suspicious if something seems very simple. When something is very simple, it is often too good to be true.

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Everyone is what they are born to be. I was born to live dangerously. I am not a respecter of laws and traditions.

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There are only so many notes in an octave, and yet one can (...) combine these few notes in millions of ways. A musician once told me that you never get the same tune twice.

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Caretakers also take special care of the kittens. They never look around, never watch out, yet they get away, even if they cross the road in front of a herd of elephants.

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In war, the army is really a good place, but in peace it is not worth a penny.

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I'm dangerous. I have always been (...). It has become my habit to run into danger. No, I wouldn't say it's a habit. It's more my passion. Like some kind of drug. To me, it's like the right little heroin pill for drug addicts that they have to swallow every now and then to make life colorful and bright, to make it worth living. That's okay. Either I die or I don't, and then we get a divorce. I never took drugs, I never needed them, danger was my drug. But he who lives as I do can bring danger and ruin to others.

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How is it these days... these poor little youngsters. Although some of them have a mother, it is not worth much - these mothers cannot protect their daughters from stupid affairs, illegitimate children, early, unfortunate marriages. Very sad.

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Normal women need to entertain themselves with a little gossip. They need to know what is happening around them, when two is four, and when five can be squeezed out of it! Such women do not harm anyone. They talk about their mouths, but they are willing when a person is in trouble.

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Different crafts change one's perspective!

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We must learn to tolerate discomfort. It is a good thing to put a pacifier in the baby's mouth to stop him from crying. But you have to get used to it over time.

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Quoting a conversation and accurately reporting what the other party said is never easy. One always tends to quote what one thinks the other person wanted to say. Later he puts concrete words into his mouth.

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Conversation is always dangerous if you want to hide something!

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At first one listens... then one's attention wanes... one's thoughts wander and suddenly one realizes one has missed something!

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The problem is (...) that everyone deals a lot with other people's illnesses. They believe that if someone is over fifty, they must die of a stroke or a heart attack or something like that. Empty chatter! If someone says that there is nothing seriously wrong, I think so.

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As you get older, you get more used to listening to others.

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It is easy to misrecognize a person who constantly feels like he is on stage (...). We don't take him seriously even if he does something honestly.

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Love, hate, lust - aren't they ultimately the same? Unity in the Trinity.

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Doctors are gloomy asses. It is recorded that someone will die soon, and then if you don't care about them, they will live another fifty years.

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No one is a hero in his butler's eyes. Maybe everyone should have a butler. Otherwise, it can be very difficult to constantly strive to live up to others' opinions of us.

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Almost without exception, every woman has the desire to hear what is predicted for her. I have already observed this in the girls I know. If we went to a fair together, I almost always had to pay for them to enter the fortune-telling tent.

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Just because you were born poor doesn't mean you have to stay poor. Money is a strange thing. It goes where they really want.

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I think one of the strangest things in life is what gets stuck in your head. I guess you choose what you remember. You have to choose somehow.

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Basically, I'm not lazy. I think it's more about my restless nature. I want to go everywhere, I want to see everything, I want to get involved in everything. I'm searching for something. Yes, this is it! I'm searching for something!

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In the end there is the beginning... I have often heard this quote. Sounds great - but what does it really mean? Is there a point at which one can point one's finger and declare: on this day, at this time and here, with this event, everything began?!

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I used to be a miserable, shivering little brat. I remember at that time how much I longed for all that I can now call my own, for the comfort and luxury of money, but never for power. I wanted money, but not to gain power for myself, but to spend it lavishly - on myself! (...) They say that you can't get everything for money. Very true. However, I can buy anything I want. That's why I'm satisfied.

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There are certain ancient powers. Most of them were destroyed by civilization, but motherhood has not changed over time. Animals and humans are the same in this respect. A mother's love for her child cannot be compared to anything in the world. He knows no law, no mercy, he dares everything and without remorse tramples down everything that stands in his way.

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The trouble is that young people are all dead certain that nothing can exist beyond the limits of their own philosophy, and they are quick to get excited if something disillusions them from it.

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Only one in a thousand people can see Jupiter's moons. Because the other nine hundred and ninety-nine cannot see it, there is still no reason to doubt the existence of Jupiter's moons, and even less reason to consider the thousandth man a fool. (...) It is very possible that today's hallucinations will become scientifically proven facts tomorrow.

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No one can stop Destiny. How unlucky is a vision that destroys when it was conjured up to save someone.

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There can be many reasons that separate you: distance, height, way of thinking... but the worst of all is when time separates you.

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What exactly is madness? I can assure you that the longer we study this topic, the harder it is to take a stand. We all have a certain amount of self-adoration, and when it gets to the point where we think we're the Czar of Russia, we get locked up or reined in. However, there is a long way to go. And who can say exactly where is the point where we can draw the line and confidently declare: "On this side common sense reigns, on the other side is the realm of madness." There is no such thing.

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Of course, people are stupid (...). Stupid people get caught no matter what they do. But there are quite a few people who are not stupid at all, and - unless they have strict moral standards - I'm afraid to think about what they might be thinking.

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He says that sin goes unpunished; but is it really so? The law can sometimes be played, it is true; however, cause and effect does not only apply within the framework of the law. The saying that sin gets its due punishment is no doubt a cliché, but in my opinion it is very true.

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Unfortunately, I don't believe in perfect beings. We all have faults - and in housework this becomes apparent very quickly!

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Distance is a bitter test for loving hearts!

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Rumors are indeed like the nine-headed hydra of Lerna, which cannot be destroyed, because if one head is cut off, two will grow in its place.

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Seduction (...) is undoubtedly a crime thousands of years old, although of course it does not have such ancient traditions as murder.

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Facts are facts, and if one is proven to be wrong, one should be able to bear the failure humbly and try again in a different way.

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Today's young people (...) talk freely about things that we hardly even dared to think about in my youth, but on the other hand, they are terribly innocent at heart. They believe everything to everyone. And if you try to warn them, even in the most cautious way, they immediately tell you that you're a dirty old donkey with a brain like a sink.

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Everyone is a potential killer. Sooner or later, if not the will, but the desire to kill arises in everyone. How many times do you hear: "You made me so angry that I could have killed you!" - "I could have killed B. for saying..." - "I was so angry that I could have killed him!" And it literally is. A person's head is completely clear at such moments. He wants to kill Y., Z. But he doesn't. Desire lacks will. The brakes don't work as well in small children.

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There is nothing crueler than gossip, and nothing so difficult to confront. When a person is slandered behind his back, there is no way to dispute or refute the slander, and the whispers only grow louder and cannot be stopped.

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You think that the person you know and love is what you see them to be. You do not yet know the human heart, how much bitterness and what evil can dwell in it.

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Once a heart is opened to sin, sin spreads like a poppy in the field.

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Young people always say this - but they never do it! What an ancient trick - and yet how many times it works (...). Young people are terribly vulnerable! They almost don't notice, and they've already set out to prove it!

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The truth is rarely appreciated (...). It saves a lot of time and a lot of side conversations.

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Medicine is not just about delaying the already inevitable end. Much more than that, he wants to make life better. If a healthy person dies, it doesn't matter... much. If a half-merciful dies, that's downright good; but if we discover what to do with the right gland to carve the demigod into a normal human mortal by restoring thyroid function, that, in my opinion, counts for something.

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One takes responsibility. You have to wear it, you can't escape from it or simply push it aside. The contract (...) is the contract. Man binds him of his free will, stick with him. Anything else results in confusion. Loose remains, half-dissolved ties.

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It hurts a person's sense of self a little if he is forced to brush off his failure with calm words.

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The delicate tropical flower needs the protection of the greenhouse, it cannot stand the cold wind. The common weed blooms in winter, but we still don't consider it more valuable.

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Behind the quarrels, the misunderstandings, the distortions of everyday life, there is often a sincere affection.

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There are such... women... as clever as the devil. If someone disagrees, they fall back, close their eyes, and suffer or have a nervous breakdown.

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Young people take nothing so seriously as when their elders want to give them advice.

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What is evil? And what is good? The answer has changed over the centuries. What you want to measure yourself is none other than the consciousness of guilt or innocence. But that doesn't prove anything.

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Normal guys who make good husbands are simply neglected.

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When a person grows old, he likes to return to the past. He wants to feel what he used to feel.

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When young girls come to a man and speak to him with a kind word, oh, how sweetly... that's the end! "Poor old man," they say to themselves, "we must be kind to him. He must be so terrible."

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Who hasn't felt a sudden pang when reliving past experiences or rekindling an old passion? I've done this before...

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Imagination is a good servant, but a bad master!

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Women are like that by nature. This is their strength, but it is also their weakness. They study their environment, accept it, and since they are realists, they settle down and then try to make the best of it.

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Until the light goes out, I will remember you, and I will not forget you even in the dark.

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I know that you often get annoyed with me (...). No matter what I do or say, it makes me angry. I don't know why this is so, since I try so hard to please you; but still I believe they mean something real to you. You don't get angry at people who don't matter.

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It doesn't hurt to know the rules, if only so that you can break them.

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People actually find pleasure in it when they point out how terrible they are. That is why they flock to popular preachers.

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Pride is good (...) to hide one's feelings. But the feeling still remains.

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The dream usually fades away, we catch it the moment we wake up, but it slips out of our clumsy fingers.

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During a conversation, we not only get answers to questions (...). People are wary when the subject may be dangerous to them, but the moment we switch to everyday conversation, they let go, surrender to the relief of being able to tell the truth, which is always much easier than lying. So they drop a little fact that they don't even know how much it changes things.

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If people pretend to be a lot friendlier, more forgiving, a lot more generous than they really are, sooner or later the result is that they act a lot more obnoxious, rude, and generally a lot more unpleasant than they really are! If you put a barrier on the course of natural behavior (...), sooner or later the barrier will fall and the flood will come!

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They say you regret your sins when you get old. It's a sham. I don't regret my sins (...), I committed some... all the old, good sins! I cheated, stole and lied... Oh my god, yes! And the women!

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How many people! Incessantly flowing, innumerable people! And all of them are so... so... what's the right word for this... so gray. They are so alike, so terribly alike. And the one that doesn't look like a sheep has the face of a rabbit (...). One of them is chattering and important, others, the heavy, middle-aged men, are grumbling. Even the slim, oval-faced, red-lipped girls are depressingly the same.

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I hate the way people handle things these days. If we get into something and we don't like it, well, let's get out of it as fast as possible. Hell, is there even such a thing as the sanctity of that word? Once a man marries a woman and commits himself to supporting her, there is no escape, he must do it. The person agreed. I shudder with disgust when I think of hasty marriages and irresponsible divorces.

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A woman can be a man's companion and inspiration in life, but she can also be the cause and preparer of his downfall. A woman can lower a man to the level of an animal.

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It's amazing how stupid men are. Incredible. It surprises me time and time again. They only notice that someone is hovering around their wife, but how the woman reacts to this, they never know!

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If a person has nothing to say, what is the point of incessant chatter?

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I once met a delightful couple. They were so polite and kind to each other, and even after many years of marriage they were such good friends that I really envied the woman. I would have happily traded it. Someone later told me that they haven't said a word to each other for eleven years now when they're alone (...) This shows that we can never know anything for sure.

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Nobody believes in evil these days. If they deal with it at all, they perceive it merely as a negation of the good. Evil is done by those who do not know good, who are uneducated, who deserve pity rather than reprimand, people say. But (...) evil lives! Evil is here among us!

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I'm old and still belong to the old school. When I was young, you could hardly even see women's ankles. How tempting it was to see the hem of her frothy petticoat flash! And the delicately contoured leg... the knee... the lacy garter...

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If the English have a fault, it is that they are a little reserved, and this reticence only gives way after a few years of acquaintance. Then they are models of cordiality.

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There is not only the desire to possess, but also the desire to be possessed.

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By the age of forty-one (...) one learns that one's entire future is very rarely at stake. Life is much more flexible.

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Everything in this world has its opposite, and beautiful mothers have ugly children.

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The past should not be preserved in stone. Tradition is a good thing, but too much of it is also harmful.

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Everyone feels differently and it's hard to predict people's emotional reactions. Whoever feels more strongly will convince the others.

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The burden of motherly duties is lightened most if we can tell someone how much effort, failure and difficulty it entails to raise our child. Parental feeling often dictates silence.

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People who resent the world are always very dangerous. They believe that life owes them something.

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Why do I like to teach? (...) Maybe because it's all like some exciting fishing. Man does not know what he will catch, what he will raise from the depths of the sea. I'm interested in the answer I get. It's so exciting when they really understand.

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It's a risky thing to try. But one has to take the risk. Experience would teach you many things. The only problem is that the experience of others is not enough.

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Anyone with a little imagination will find things to change and improve everywhere.

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The problem is that people are cowards, they don't dare to face things. It's like they can't see what's right in front of them. I'm not like that. I cannot be diverted from anything.

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Abroad, you don't expect the people there to be honest, but at home you don't take care, and it's easy for scoundrels.

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People (...) have the hardest time swallowing when someone wants to control them according to the rules of common sense.

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It is not so difficult to awaken the savage in the most civilized man.

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Democracy is a word that has a different meaning everywhere (...), but in few places it is what the Greeks once called it.

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Adequately applied discipline (...) gives students a sense of security, but violence creates resistance.

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When a person is old (...), he remembers a face he saw in his youth much better than the faces of last year or the year before.

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Sensitive and weak-hearted people are often prone to deceit. And if they feel that life has destroyed them, then their poor little moral standing is easily shaken.

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A person is truly alone when the last person who could remember is gone.

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In good financial circumstances, one cannot gain insight into the darker depths of human nature.

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How all airports are the same (...). A strange anonymity hovers around them. All of them are at a certain distance from the city, so a strange feeling of statelessness takes hold of you, as if you are floating in nothingness. You can travel from London to Madrid, Rome, Istanbul, Cairo or wherever you want - and if you travel by plane, you won't have the faintest idea of ​​what these cities are like. If you look at them from the air, you only see an illuminated map, something built from building blocks.

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Behind the mask of humanism and compassion, anything can happen.

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There are birds that are unable to sing in captivity (...). So perhaps there are scientists who cannot think creatively under certain circumstances.

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A madman who fancies himself a god (...) that's what happens, my dear. Over and over, throughout history. And it captivates each person.

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Accumulated wealth, authority, influential families - this was in the past. But today the power is in the hands of the youth. In minds.

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With ingenuity, role-playing, fraud, bribery, and corruption, one can achieve almost anything. This is something that needs to be carefully assessed and planned for.

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I wasn't looking for freedom. I am a civilized person. A civilized person knows that such a thing does not exist. Only the younger, more immature generations put the word "Freedom" on their flags.

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There are those who worship sin and virtue with equal devotion!

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Everyone has their own method. As for me, I have always gladly combined the useful with the pleasant.

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Literature feeds on reality.

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Throughout my life, I have always observed the same thing: "You get what you want!" Who knows? (...) Maybe you get more than expected...

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I realized that the words we throw around every step of the way mean almost nothing.

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I am a person who really loves my work, but not just for the sake of humanity. I often find that people who think like this are mostly confused idealists and not really talented people. I value the purely intellectual joy of research the most.

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One should keep one's common sense. Nothing is final, nothing is eternal.

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It is much easier to control a temperamental opera singer than a scientist. These young men are brilliant, unpredictable, rebellious and fatally, dangerously gullible.

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It's so depressing when a woman has to choose her clothes quickly! It destroys all the joy of toilette.

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The man of science (...) is not the cool, calm personality as in the novels. There is little difference between a first-class tennis player, an opera singer and a nuclear physicist, that is, as far as their emotional lability is concerned.

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Individual happiness does not matter (...). General human happiness is important, the brotherhood of the soul! Free and organized labor is the one who, in possession of the means of production - freed from incitement to war, lust for money, and greed - holds everything in its hands. Science belongs to everyone, and cannot be jealously guarded by one or another power.

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Women are always the ones looking for happiness!

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We can't help but ask questions all the time. (...) We never say: "I am satisfied with today". Always only tomorrow, tomorrow! Leaving the past behind us - for the future. This is our wish.

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Sometimes people can believe even the most blatant lies - if someone can present them convincingly enough, and if they have enough courage to do it all the way through.

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- When a person is almost on the verge of freedom, how can you think of turning back? - But if you can't turn back, or choose whether to turn back, then it's not freedom!

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Any discomfort can be endured for the sake of victory. Therefore, no suffering can be too much!

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- Do you believe that human nature is the same everywhere? (...) - In every country. In the past, as in the present, people have always been guided by two things. Cruelty and Mercy. Where is one, where is the other. Sometimes both.

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You wander to the island of peace, but deep down you cannot rest. The confusion of the world, the difficulties of life, regrets and sufferings - you carry all this with you inside.

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A man can endure anything as long as there is someone or something worth it.

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Civilized unhappiness - the worst of all unhappiness. Gray and bleak.

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Women paint themselves even if something great has happened to them. Knowing full well how much grief and tears damage their appearance, they do everything to remove the traces of destruction.

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When I meet someone who thinks too much of themselves and brags non-stop, I always think that it's all about countering some sort of hidden inferiority complex.

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Thinking is the only way to solve all problems.

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How boring men become when they decide to get married. They suddenly lose all their charm.

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Hasn't life taught you that you can't take possession of a human being from skin to skin? When I was young I loved you! I wanted you to share your life with me. You weren't willing to!

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I was really happy that we met again. However, your life is on a different track than mine; they do not touch, but are completely different from each other.

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From today I will start my life again. A new life dawns for me. The things that have made me miserable and prevented me from living are gone. Were you right this afternoon when you asked me if I wanted to run away from myself? Because that's what I've been doing for years. Because I didn't know if I was strong or very weak. (...) I was afraid of myself, I was afraid of life, I was also afraid of you.

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It is lucky that a person outgrows himself.

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I recently visited a museum, looking at Babylonian or other similar archaeological finds: they were thousands of years old. And among them are boxes of beauty products. A woman's heart does not change.

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I was always afraid that these young people would get bored of our Christmas. But that is not the case at all, on the contrary. My own son and daughter, as well as their friends, pretty much belittled it, saying it was all nonsense, unnecessary fuss, and it would be much better to go to a hotel and dance. But the younger generation finds it extremely attractive.

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My password: don't trust anyone! If a man is rich, he cannot trust anyone.

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A person under severe mental stress does not do something he has never done before when he is upset. Your reflexes follow the line of least resistance. Someone might come to dinner in their pajamas when they're excited - but they'll be their own, not someone else's.

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This is the problem with today's world. Too much confusion. And too much fine talk. The fine speech that serves to make you forget the confusion. Like the heavily seasoned dressing that serves to mask the stinkiness of the fish underneath.

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Nowadays, young guys are all the same: neither courage nor endurance. I don't know what to do with young people, and they (...) don't know what to do with me. They might be right. Listening to some of them, one gets the feeling that no one has the right to live past the age of sixty. Their behavior makes me wonder if some of them have not trampled their older relatives.

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There is no tension greater than that which has to be borne over years, and no resentment stronger than that which accumulates little by little.

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A cornered weak man is more dangerous than a strong one.

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My principle is that I never argue with very assertive ladies. You get it: a complete waste of time.

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Pale blue eyes with a rather sly look - this pair of eyes is often associated with dishonesty by weak observers. Still: there are liars who look people in the eye with a bold and trusting look.

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A woman needs a lie sometimes. Women need to protect themselves, and lying is their good weapon. But there are three persons (...) who must confess the truth. To the father of the confessor, the hairdresser and the private detective.

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Self-defense is a strange thing. I never thought I'd be such a coward. To listen, just because I'm afraid!

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Often the quietest and most peaceful people are capable of quite sudden and unexpected acts of violence, precisely because when their self-control collapses, the collapse is complete!

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Christmas is for children. We adults celebrate the New Year.

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One always thinks that the days of one's youth are the best.

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A man lives and dies not only by himself. He passes on what is inherent in him to those who come after him...

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The world is very cruel to women. They have to fend for themselves... while they're young. When they are old and ugly, no one will help them.

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- You never know with girls! The stars would fall from the sky for the sake of a man. - That only speaks to their good heart.

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An artificially created state has its natural consequences.

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This is what happens when a gentleman reaches a certain age. It completely changes from a pretty face.

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Christmas is a beautiful old custom (...). It strengthens the value of family unity.

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Remember, nothing is as boring as clinging.

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The devil hides in men when their wives cry forever.

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Marriage is a very special thing, and I doubt that any outsider - even a child from the marriage - would have the right to judge it.