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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precio...

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The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the rea...

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War is the health of the state.

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing...

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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in...

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We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the advent...

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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is...

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The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its i...

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A man with few friends is only half-developed there are whole sides of his nature which are locked ...

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Randolph Bourne

Writer

Born: 1886-05-30

Died: 1918-12-22

Randolph Silliman Bourne (30 May 1886–22 December 1918) was a progressive writer and leftist intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.  Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work The State, discovered after his death.More