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The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.


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Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?



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Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.



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I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.



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We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.



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...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.





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