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- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms…
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
- No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- [P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care…
- I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted…
- The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the…
- Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each…
- All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
- As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome.…
- I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that…
- Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
- There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last…
- All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction…
- Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance…
- The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and…
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic stations in life…
- Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
- History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.
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