Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
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Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
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Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit h...
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
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