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He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a sho...more

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

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Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human ...more

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Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained,...more

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Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purpose...more

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For I am you and you are I.

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Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-bu...more

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There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing...more

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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflic...more

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There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the res...more

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But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and ...more