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    Every man thinks god is on his side.

    God | Side | Thinks


    Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

    Courage | Men | Miracles


    The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

    Immorality


    Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

    Work | Power | Magic


    Nothing is irreparable in politics.

    Politics


    A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

    Genius | Obvious | Understood


    Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

    Life | Art | Nice


    Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

    Gardening | Life | Men


    Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

    Life | Love | Someday


    Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

    Talent | Open | Faucet


    God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

    Money | God | Analysis


    I like reality. It tastes like bread.

    Reality | Bread | Tastes


    Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

    Themselves | Importance


    Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

    Life | History | Talk


    What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

    Poor | Excess


    All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

    Men | Evil | Ideas


    Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

    Life | Almost | Fabulous


    Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

    Love | Gift | Oneself


    To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

    Life | Death | Hands


    Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

    Hope | Tragedy | Reason


       

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