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Quote by Vaclav Havel
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most decept

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. – Vaclav Havel

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. – Vaclav Havel

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Sometimes I wonder if suicides arent in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. – Vaclav Havel

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Im fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. Id like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people dont like being alone because they truly dont like themselves, but I love me. – Gene Simmons

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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today. – Uwe Boll

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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. – John Clayton

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Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner its off the better. – Horatio Nelson

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