“We already have so much to carry around, a body too?!”

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“Religions are the crusade against humor.”

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QUESTION: “What do you do from morning to night?” 

ANSWER:  “I endure myself.”

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“I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end up resembling my latest enemy.”

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“ Suicide is a discovery.”

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“Everything that matters was accomplished outside doubt.”

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“As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes.  When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.”

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“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty.  Forty years of a long, superfluous verification.”

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“No need to elaborate works — merely say something that can be murmured in the ear of a drunkard or a dying man.” 

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“A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself…”