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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

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I have read your book and much like it.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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