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" Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. "

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" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "

" Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. "

" What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. "

" 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. "

" What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. "

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

" It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. "

" Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. "

" Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. "

" One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. "

" What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. "

" Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. "

" People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. "

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

" There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. "

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

" Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. "

" I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. "

" There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. "

" 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. "

" To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. "

" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "

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

" Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. "

" The proper study of mankind is books. "

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

" It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. "

" Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. "

" A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. "

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