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