She has more names than petticoats.
("Doctor Zhivago")
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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
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I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself.
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