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" What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. "

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" A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. "

" Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. "

" An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. "

" Dream in a pragmatic way. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. "

" 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. "

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

" The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. "

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

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

" It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. "

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

" Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. "

" Experience teaches only the teachable. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. "

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

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" 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. "

" An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. "