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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we…
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman,…
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would…
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire…
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or…
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin…
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they…
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Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our…
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin…
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... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not…
— Henri Lebesgue
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Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
— Ninon de L'Enclos
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
— Walter Scott
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So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and…
— John Irving
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Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.…
— Blaise Pascal
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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel…
— Julien Green
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