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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery…
— Teresa of Avila
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
— Tony Abbott
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There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.
— Winston Churchill
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Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,…
— Thomas Brooks
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Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best…
— George Carlin
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Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church,…
— Origen
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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
— Mao Zedong
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It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives…
— Anna Sewell
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Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
— John of Salisbury
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