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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
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The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of…
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The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
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The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other…
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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable…
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We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
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I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my…
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I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar…
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Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal…
— Ambrose Bierce
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