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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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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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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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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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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

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