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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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