His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

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You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.

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Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

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He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing.

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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

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I am not the we of anyone.

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I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

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When all else fails, philosophize.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

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