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" The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. "
Aldous Huxley
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" The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. "
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" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "
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" An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. "
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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. "
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" 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? "
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" Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. "
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" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "
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" 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. "
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" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "
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" All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. "
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" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "
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