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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. "

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" That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. "

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