The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

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I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

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The more stitches, the less riches.

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