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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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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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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

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The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

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To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

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