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" Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

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" Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. "

" My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. "

" Maybe this world is another planet's hell. "

" 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.' "

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" Every man's memory is his private literature. "

" Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. "

" Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. "

" Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. "

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

" Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. "

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

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" What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure. "

" 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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