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“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.” — Charles Bukowski

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“The less I needed the better I felt.” — Charles Bukowski

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“A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.” — Thomas Mann

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“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.” — Thomas Mann

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“War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” — Thomas Mann

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“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“I quote others only in order to better express myself.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” — Marcel Proust

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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.” — Marcel Proust

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