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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…
• It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
• Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
• Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
• The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
• Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
• A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
• This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
• 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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