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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "

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

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" 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. "

" God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. "

" Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? "

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

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

" 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. "

" Dream in a pragmatic way. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. "

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