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As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses…
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Under the imaginary table that separates me from my readers, don’t we secretly clasp each other’s hands?
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In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my…
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This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.
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So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of…
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There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere…
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An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open…
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...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus,…
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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the…
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My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.
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The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without…
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Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to…
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
— William Hazlitt
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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he…
— H. L. Mencken
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In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp…
— Tacitus
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Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.
— Confucius
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If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
— Billy Sunday
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In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of…
— Gideon Raff
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own…
— H. L. Mencken
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Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged…
— Ron Fournier
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;…
— Tacitus
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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the…
— Bruno Schulz
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I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.
— Janet Frame
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