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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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