"Does a human being know the responsibility he has to himself and to all of mankind"
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"As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be."
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"Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'"
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"One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks."
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"What a man does not understand, he does not possess."
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"He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered."
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"If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole."
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"He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come."
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"I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory."
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"Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it."
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"Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does."
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"No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change."
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"In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms"
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"Trade is a social act. Whoever undertakes to sell any description of any goods to the public, does what affects the interest of other persons, and of society in general; and thus his conduct, in principal, comes within the jurisdiction of society."
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"The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved."
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"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
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"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
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"Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life."
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"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?"
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"Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench."
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