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I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

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In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

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If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

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People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

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As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

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There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

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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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...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

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Passion makes every detail important.

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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

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Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

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The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman.

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