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It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

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If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

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Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

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You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.

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Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.

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Thinking is my fighting.

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Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

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