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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

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All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

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Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

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The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

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If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

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Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

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At least five times, with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist skeptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Christian Faith has to all appearance, gone to the dogs? But, in each of these five cases, it was the dog that died.

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For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

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Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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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 primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

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