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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
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Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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