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A perfect person is easy to love. But when somebody likes all your imperfections, well, that's when you know they really mean it.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.