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Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

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Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

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Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effor...more

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The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example is easy to give but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one ...more

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Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and ha...more