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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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One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world...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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To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological sa...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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And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name ...more

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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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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