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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

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I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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No man can be merry unless he is serious.

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The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical politics and also great literature.

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The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

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Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

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The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

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The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

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The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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The simplification of anything is always sensational.

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

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Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

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