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“Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?”

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“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,…

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

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People who cannot feel punish those who do.

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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…

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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

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Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it…

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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can…

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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

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I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope…

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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

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Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small…

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There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

William Bernbach

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

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Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

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Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve…

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Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer

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When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

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