"The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions."

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Source : Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

Arthur Schnitzler

#Tasks Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Principal Quotes

“How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to be? What are we? Who are we? Why are we? How do we come to be what or who we are or take ourselves to be? How do we give an account of ourselves? How do we account for ourselves, our actions, interactions, transactions (praxis), our biologic processes? Our specific human existence?”
“In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.”
“There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.”
“Women should not be penalized for being women. Equally, men should not be penalized for being men. I fear that in overly politically correct western Christian democracies, the latter is occurring. It should not be forgotten that nature will correct the pendulum, so that is does not swing too far either way.”
“There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.”
“What do people in prison say when they meet new friends? Give me your cell number.”
“I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.”

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