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It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

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I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and t...more

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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is f...more

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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.

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Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendshi...more

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Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others; his attachment to Kafka was warm and disint...more

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Damn! What did Ansermet, that most faithful friend, know about Stravinsky's poverty of heart? What did he, that most devoted friend, know about Stravi...more

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Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of us who live in a society where various political te...more