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I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
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It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is…
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How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at…
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When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which…
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When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
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The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
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Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.
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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to…
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I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it…
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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow,…
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A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness,…
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Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
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Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.
— Theodor Billroth
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what…
— Andre Malraux
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one…
— Fidel Castro
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long…
— Walker Percy
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There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a…
— Isak Dinesen
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...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every…
— Henry James
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The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from…
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Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is…
— Walker Percy
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the…
— Hugo Black
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
— William Hazlitt
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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because…
— George Santayana
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
— Stendhal
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