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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

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The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

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We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

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Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

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It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

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Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

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The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

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In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

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It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

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