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

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

" The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. "

" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "

" The proper study of mankind is books. "

" 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. "

" Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. "

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

" 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. "

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

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

" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "

" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "

Good Intentions

" Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. "

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

" A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. "

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

" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

" The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. "

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

" If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. "

" 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. "

" Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. "

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

" 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. "

" To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. "

" Several excuses are always less convincing than one. "

" Every man's memory is his private literature. "

" Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. "

" Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. "