"Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."
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"Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice."
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"I like being myself. Myself and nasty."
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"The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men."
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"The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories."
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"One of the great attractions of patriotism"
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"To be a fool at the right time is also an art."
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"Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right"
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"So now you can let go, my darling...Let go...Let go of this poor old body. You don't need it anymore. Let it fall away from you. Leave it lying there like a pile of worn-out clothes...Go on, my darling, go on into the Light, into the peace, into the living peace of the Clear Light."
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"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
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"But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably."
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"Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God."
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"I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
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"Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium."
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"Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement."
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"People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!"
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"Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces."
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"People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
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"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image."
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