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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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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Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

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If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

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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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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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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

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

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Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.

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