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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little ...

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Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

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Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes till ninety-five? On...

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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

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Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something

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The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a win...

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My dear young friend ... civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a...

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Music

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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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The philosophy of action for action, power for the sake of power, had become an established orthodoxy. "Thou has conquered, O go-getting Babbi...

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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music

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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

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Why any quick-witted and sensitive person should feel ashamed of having said good-by to politics, he couldn't imagine. The sordid intrigues be...

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Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is The long nights of the grave.

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