"The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man."
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
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"Appearances are often deceiving."
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"Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety."
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"You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense."
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"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired."
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"Where would fashion be without literature?"
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"The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."
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"A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'."
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"Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."
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"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
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"It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable"
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"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
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"We must become just be doing just acts."
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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
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"Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."
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"I will not take "but" for an answer."
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"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human."
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