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- There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for…
- That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
- Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
- Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
- Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad…
- The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for…
- Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the…
- Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age…
- Any belief worth having must survive doubt
- We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that…
- Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity
- Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
- The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- [...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered…
- If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
- A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
- Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
- Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
- Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to…
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however…
- In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by…
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