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Ever since poets have written and women have read them (for which the poets should be most deeply grateful) women have been called angels so many times that, in very truth, in their simplicity of soul, they have believed the compliment, forgetting that, for money, the same poets have glorified Nero
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I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others..
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
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Reality is a bitch. And that is hardly surprising, since it is the product of stupidity's fornication with the spirit of calculation — the dregs of the sacred illusion offered up to the jackals of science.
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For the credit of human nature, I am always pleased to discover some good qualities in those men whom party has represented as tyrants and monsters.
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The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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This user, unaccountably, thought these fake tags were funny when it first started using them but now, alas, doesn't.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Indeed, you cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The first man to use abusive language instead of his fists was the founder of civilization.
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Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
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If you want a happy ending that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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When smashing monuments, save the pedestals -- they always come in handy.
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All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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therefore we must watch for kings, lest our gain be lost
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ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
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Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
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is the perfect chillout music for after too much wiki.
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There's room at the top they are telling you still,
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Melt Banana

Sigmund Freud
Anatole France
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Picture of the day
Red-tailed hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Frank Schulenburg
Archive
More featured pictures
William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Mikhail Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time
The Beautiful South
George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion
Carl Jung
Robert Louis Stevenson
Carolyn Wells
Henry David Thoreau

Aristophanes
The Birds
Primo Levi
If This Is a Man
Jean Baudrillard

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