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• "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."

• "You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."

• "You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."

• "Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion."

• "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still."

• "They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."

• "There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."

• "The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."

• "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

• "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."

• "It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."

• "I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know."

• "Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."

• "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."

• "A man's most open actions have a secret side to them."

• "An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation."

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