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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

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I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

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I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

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We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

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Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

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