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Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

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Want

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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Portraits

Writers

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

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Patience

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

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Time

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

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Reason

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

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Poor

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

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Walking

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

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France

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

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France

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

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