Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty

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