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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision
Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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