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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. ”
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ”
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ”
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. ”
Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler. ”
Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared. ”
I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even in my movies that I've written myself, the characters sometimes border on great anger or nutsiness or other kinds of behavior. I'm not just doing fart jokes for two hours. ”
This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending. ”
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life. ”