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" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "

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" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "

" The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

" Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. "

" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "

" There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "

" Maybe this world is another planet's hell. "

" You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. "

" Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. "

" Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. "

" De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. "

" There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. "

" The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. "

" We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. "

" Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "

" A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. "

" Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. "

" My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. "

" That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. "

" Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. "

" There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. "

" Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. "

" Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. "

" Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. "

" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "

" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. "