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" The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. "

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" We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. "

" Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. "

" Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. "

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

" I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. "

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

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

" One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. "

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

" Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. "

" Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. "

" The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. "

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

" The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. "

" Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him. "

" The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. "

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

" All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. "

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

" The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. "

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

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" I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. "