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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

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The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

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Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.

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Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

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Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

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In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

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From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

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How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

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He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

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