"But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?"
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?"
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"What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last."
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"A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt."
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"A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."
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"O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!"
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"What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?"
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"He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely."
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"Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth."
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"... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit."
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"In the vernacular of my grandfather, 'I does not care.'"
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"Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no."
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"Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that."
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"Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings."
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"Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?"
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"when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least."
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"Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten."
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"Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway."
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"The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does."
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