The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds
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Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
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Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
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Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
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Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
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Kyskhet är den egendomligaste av alla sexuella avvikelser.
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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
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The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disintere...
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