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Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthe...

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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

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The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad

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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

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Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

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An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support

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Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

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Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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