In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
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Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.
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Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.
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Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It ...
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself
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Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them...
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistake...
