A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.

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Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

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The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

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I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

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The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

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The important thing in life is to let the years carry us along.

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Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

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The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

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Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

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