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" Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. "

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" The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. "

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" If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. "

" The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. "

" No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. "

" Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. "

" Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. "

" Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. "

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" The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. "

" One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. "

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" In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. "

" The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. "

" No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. "

" It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. "

" Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets. "

" The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. "

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" Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. "

" The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. "

" Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' "

" There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. "

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