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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
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A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
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Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
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I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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Badness is only spoiled goodness.
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I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
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I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen.
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No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.
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...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species--preference for man simply because we are men--is not sentiment, then what is?
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalist for the same reasons.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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She's the sort of woman who lives for others -- you can tell the others by their hunted expression.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
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I believe Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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