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As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive.…
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Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With…
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Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a…
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But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a…
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Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.
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Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with…
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And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is…
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For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things…
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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
— Isaac Barrow
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In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as…
— Terence MacSwiney
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They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy…
— Aleister Crowley
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In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as…
— William Herschel
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
— Pierre Corneille
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No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down,…
— Eudora Welty
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