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" Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. "

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" Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. "

" Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. "

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" 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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" When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. "

" What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? "

" Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. "

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" Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. "

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" Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. "

" One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. "

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

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" One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. "

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