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The lotus flower is troubled At the sun's resplendent light; With sunken head and sadly She dreamily waits for the night.
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She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
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INCEST: A game the whole family can play.
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I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.
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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
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Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
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Dieu me pardonnera c'est son metier. (God will pardon me, that's his job.)
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Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
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Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid.
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Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
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I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
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The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.
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There are more fools in the world than there are people.
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We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
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When books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
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