"One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return."
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"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
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"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
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"While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them."
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"People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence."
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"Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness."
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"You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized."
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"Good writing is like a windowpane."
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"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades"
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"Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
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"High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
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"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
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"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."
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"A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust."
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"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery."
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"There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man"
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"There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe."
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"If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen."
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"The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
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