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They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

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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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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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Art is the signature of man.

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IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

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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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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

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Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

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That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

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I am at one with my duality.

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