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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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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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With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscu...more

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

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Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full signifi...more

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For I am you and you are I.

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Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

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Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is ...more

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Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were scarce and difficult...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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Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of paten...more