"Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are."
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"... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully."
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"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare."
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"[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one."
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"He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies."
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"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death."
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"Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?"
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