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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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Authority and example lead the world.

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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.

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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

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Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

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Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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