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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. "

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

" It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' "

" 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. "

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

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" Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

" Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. "

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" Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities. "

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

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" The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. "

" Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. "

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