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“Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.”
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“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
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“One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.”
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“Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.”
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“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of ...”
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“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you emerge, your friends, embracing you, will exclaim: 'Your eyes! Your eyes have changed!' And not one of your tormentors will be able to bear your scrutiny. They will turn away from it, like beaten dogs.”
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“He always looked up and took notice when religion was mentioned; to this family the word was like 'rats' to a dog, owing, perhaps, to their many clerical ancestors, perhaps to the fact that they were latish Victorians.”
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“I think that perhaps it is impossible to be a wit without also being essentially, deeply, and tragically, a melancholy person.”