Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.

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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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Man is what he believes.

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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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