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She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

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My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

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A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

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I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

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Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

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And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

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Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

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Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

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The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

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Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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