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No man can be merry unless he is serious.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

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Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

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somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

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I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

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Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is: what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problems of the modern novel is: what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

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Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

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It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

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The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

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The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

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