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When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.