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A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

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If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

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

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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

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