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/ page 572 of 1205 /School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real suc...
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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We are most alive when we're in love.
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You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.
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The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
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