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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

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Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

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A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

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The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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