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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of…

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in… — Anatole France
Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe… — Richard Rorty
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds. — Louis Aragon
I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is… — Georg Trakl
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a… — Robert Bridges
I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little… — Saint Francis de Sales
The true genius shudders at incompleteness. — Edgar Allan Poe
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of… — James A. Michener
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. — Edgar Allan Poe

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