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The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere…

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives. — Keith Green
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.… — Jorge Luis Borges
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Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. — James Harvey Robinson
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I… — John Phillips
I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two? — Leon Wieseltier
If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things… — Stephanie Klein
We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations.… — Greg Kinnear
The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the… — Louis Kronenberger

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