"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
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"Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion."
"When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following."
"The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all."
"Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does."
"Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins."
"Does anyone in the UFC actually follow the rules?"
"I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does"
"How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they"
"The devil doesn't stay where there is music."
"With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'"
"The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world."
"But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing."
"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."
"A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives."
"We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'"
"Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake."
"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it."
"When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore."
"When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on"