“The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.”
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“There was a lot of negative that was put on rappers for using the word, and I feel like we're just misunderstood. Most of us are; some of us is just plain wack.”
“In real life I'm not the one who's playing with guns or smoking.”
“Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.”
“Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.”
“All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.”
“The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age.”
“Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.”
“But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.”
“It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.”
“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.”
“It was only in the theatre that I lived”
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
“I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips”
“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”
“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”
“London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.”
“It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.”