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They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men ...

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Ray BradburyThe Martian Chronicles

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

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

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

Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side....

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible...

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For I am you and you are I.

Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:....

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

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One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishme...

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There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— ...

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But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated."Why one makes such a fuss about ...

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

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went...

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Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of Perception

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest ...

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God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spi...

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The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s...

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Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genu...

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It would be pleasant to believe that the age of pessimism is now coming to a close, and that its end...

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to las...

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