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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.