"Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!"

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“The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!”

“Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.”

“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

“Our lives consist of two numbers: date of birth and date of death.”

“Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!”

“Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.”

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"A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism."

— Italo Svevo

Literature1861–1928

#friendship

"Trump asked for $718 billion for 2020, and Congress came back and said, ‘We would never give you that. We will give you .’ So they increased it by an incredible amount, and it's tough to even state ho…"

— Lee Camp

Literature1980

#friendship

"A meeting we accordingly had, and conned the paper over. I was delighted with its high tone and the flights of oratory with which it abounded, especially that concerning negro slavery, which, though I…"

— John Adams

Politics1947

#love

"Looking back over the years that have lapsed since this was written, I cannot say that James's prophecy as to the future of pragmatism has been fulfilled; but that the world, at least the world in whi…"

— Edgar A. Singer

Philosophy

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