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All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers....more

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At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is n...more

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes v...more

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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

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He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of...more

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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die vio...more

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.