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

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" The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. "

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

" It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. "

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

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

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

" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "

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

" Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. "

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

" Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. "

" My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. "

" Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too. "

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" To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. "

" The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. "

" The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. "

" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. "

" The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. "

" There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. "

" That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. "

" Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. "

" The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. "

" There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. "

" After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "

" The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. "

" Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. "

" Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions. "