"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible."
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"By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all."
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"Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting."
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"I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought."
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"What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible."
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"The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things - an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void."
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"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
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"If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity."
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"God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity."
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"Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood."
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"I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering."
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"The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14)."
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"Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth."
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"If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward."
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"does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction"
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"What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us."
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"I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read."
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"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like."
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"Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that."
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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."
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