“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
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“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
― Lower Depths and Other Plays
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
― A Writer's Diary
― A Writer's Diary
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