The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
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The lion cares less about being king of the beasts than about finding his dinner.
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The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
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The only peace is being out of earshot.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
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Only death goes deeper than sex.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Money: power at its most liquid.
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
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In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
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The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.
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Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
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Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.
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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
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A blocked path also offers guidance.
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I love you is the inscription on Pandora's box.
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to Americanize him.
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale -- identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.
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'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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Life is struggle and sleep.
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Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
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