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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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