"...there is no old age of the soul."
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"Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me."
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"It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people."
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"How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?"
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"It is a joy to be choked with thought."
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"The two real problems in life are boredom and death."
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"Art is order, made out of the chaos of life."
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"We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution."
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"Love is the most potent cosmetic."
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"The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence."
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"You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it."
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"But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles."
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"I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles."
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"Let the enemies of life step down."
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"What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to."
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"The best argument is an undeniably good book."
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"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
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"The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions."
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"Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability."
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"My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?"
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