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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. "

" An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. "

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

" So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. "

" Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

" That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. "

" 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. "

" A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "