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

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, w...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

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Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but ...more