"The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion."
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"I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced."
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"It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers."
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
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"A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else."
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"If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything."
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"The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them."
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"When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?"
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"No Englishman is ever fairly beaten"
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"People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic."
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"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."
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"Paradoxes are the only truths."
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"We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction."
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"Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand."
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"You will think less of the art, when you know the artist"
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"The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film."
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"The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often."
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary"
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"Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with."
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