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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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People always make war when they say they love peace.

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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

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The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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