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“He hid a scornful smile under his mustache, which is not a good hiding place.”
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“You believe it's cold, but if you build yourself a snowhouse it's warm. You think it's white, but at times it looks pink, and another time it's blue. It can be softer than anything, and then again harder than stone. Nothing is certain.”
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“Hunger makes a thief of any man.”
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“Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail. ”
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“... does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people?”
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“The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.”
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“To one people the war would appear each day, compressed between advertisements and confined to a small space in the living room; the explosion of bombs and the cries of the wounded would become the background accompaniment to dinner. For the other people the war would come one day out of a clear blue sky. In a few minutes it would be over: the bombs, released by an invisible pilot with incomprehensible intentions, would leave only the debris and the dead behind.”
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“No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.”