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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not…
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Content thyself to be obscurely good.
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Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined…
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The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it…
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning…
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The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I…
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People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
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He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
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His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without…
— Albert Camus
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Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at…
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The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and…
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