"I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I……" — John Barth

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• I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to… — Georg Brandes
• Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not… — Epictetus
• If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not… — Seneca the Younger
• To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran
• ... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs… — Christer Kihlman
• There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which… — Edmond de Goncourt
• I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a… — George Gissing
• I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the… — Mark Twain
• Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused… — John Walford
• There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules de Goncourt
• Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we… — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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