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““But there’s one problem that you have to solve if you’re to go on profiting from books, and books won’t help you much to solve it [,,,] The problem of finding someone, even one single person, you can endure life with. To me it’s acute.””

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“It is almost as if the nearer one approaches to a thing, the less it proves to be there, to exist at all.”

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When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

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After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

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“...human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts.…

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“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited knowledge and…

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“Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you…

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Everything to do with time is hideous.

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“...Though it may not be a suitable comment for even this confidential record, I thought, by no means for the first time in such…

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“No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.”

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“Give up all the wild ideas that buzz round you like wasps. Or like bluebottles. […] Find a nice, ordinary girl, not too attractive…

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“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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