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Censorship of anything, at any time, in any
place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and
the bigot. |
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If a person is to get the meaning of life he
must learn to like the facts about himself – ugly as they may seem to his sentimental
vanity – before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly. |
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Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives
searching for a magic door and a last kingdom of peace. |
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Happiness hates the timid ! So does science
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This is Daddy’s bedtime secret for
today: Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. |
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Critics ? I love every bone in their heads. |
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The old – like children – talk to
themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that
though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to
one’s beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one’s secrets are one’s
own. |
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Man’s loneliness is but his fear of
life. |
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Raw emotion produces the worst in people. |
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Revenge is the subconscious motive for the
individual’s behavior with the rest of the society. Revulsion drives a man to tell
others of his sin. --- It is the furies within us that seek to destroy us. --- Vice and
virtue cannot live side by side. It’s the humiliation of a loving kiss that destroys
evil. |
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I do not think you can write anything of
value or understanding about the present. You can only write about life if it is far
enough in the past. The present is too much mixed up with the superficial values, you
can’t know which thing is important and which is not. |
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It will take man a million years to grow up
and obtain a soul. |
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