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• You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

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  God, Enemy, Three

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• When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

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  Sports, Thinking, Goal

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• In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

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  Love, Strong, Weak

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• An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

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  Ignorance, Catholic, Christ

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• Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.

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  Healthy, Lasts, Lifetime

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• There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

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  Definitions, Habit, Bad Habits

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• Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

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  Spiritual, Drinking, Damage

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• Art is good but it isn't the best.

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  Art, Art Is

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• Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

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  Matter, Interest, One Thing

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• If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

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  Believe, Let It Go, Ears

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• The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

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  Poetry, Despair, Born

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• You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.

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  Decision, Made

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• You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

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  Opposites, Done, Said

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• When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

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  Music, Eye, Over You

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• The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

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  Life, Thoughtful, Men

  "Head in the Clouds". Book by Jose Bergamin, 1934.

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• Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

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  Adventure, Half, Life Is

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• I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.

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  Love, Fear, Women

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• Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

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  Race, Trying, Obstacles

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• In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

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  Meals, Literature, French Literature

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• True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

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  Solidarity, Solitary

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• Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

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  Mistake, Men, Answers

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• All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

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  Revolutionary, Tradition

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• Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.

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  Thinking, Devil, Naked

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• Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

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  Littles, Succeed, Failing

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• When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

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  Music, Car, Lovely

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