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No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

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A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

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Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

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THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

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Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

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Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

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There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

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With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

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Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

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The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

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The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

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Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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