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TODAY’S QUOTATIONS
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On Karajan (a German of Greek descent): “…despite
being narcissistic, nasty and Nazi, he was a
superb conductor.”
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Saint-Beuve: “Speaking the truth is the best
revenge.”
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Vassily Grossman (Russian writer): “We are not
people. We are xxxx.”
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Lenin: “The capitalist is so greedy that he will
buy even the rope with which we will hang him.”
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xxxx=xxxxs (kaks)

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It happened in Athens at the end of World War II, Very early one morning the rumor spread that there were three corpses in a ditch less than a block from our house. I was eight or nine then, and I joined the small crowd to view the unusual sight. Later we were told both the victims and their killers had been members of rival Armenian political parties.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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With old age
comes the illusion of wisdom.
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Graffiti, then and now:
“The Vietcong are the good guys.”
“Kill the xxxxx!”
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When we speak of solutions,
We mean of course, the instant variety.
Say the word, and pouf!
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The aim of philosophy:
to teach us to accept the inevitability of death
as a priceless gift.”
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Friday, September 23, 2016
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READING MONTHERLANT
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On American movies:
“Technical perfection
in the service of cretinism.”
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“Lo peor es siempre cierto.”
(The worst is always certain.)

“In man, it is the
butterfly that turns into a worm.”
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“It is important for a man,
at least once in his life,
to have believed he is about to die:
parenthetically, this is one of the gifts
war gives to man.”
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It is written: "If you hear a mountain has moved,
believe it. But if you hear a man has changed,
believe it not."

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/141425.Paul_Val_ry?page=1

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Happiness consists in choosing your brand of
misery, accepting it as an inevitable fact, and
getting used to it.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
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FROM MY NOTEBOOKS
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You may have noticed that
when most people begin a sentence
with the words “I think,”
a cliché is sure to follow.
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Anonymous: “A girl in good shape
is often the reason why
a man is in bad shape.”
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Old age falls on you suddenly
without warning like a ton of bricks.
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Arthur Koestler: “Zen always held a fascination
for a category of men in whom
brutishness combines with pseudomysticism,
from Samurai to Kamikaze to Beatnik.”
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