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"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."
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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
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"All shoes have value but shoes do not have same value."
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour."
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"How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality, narrowly or completely."
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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"Some call their mistake a discovery;to others, their mistake is a misfortune and to most people a mistake is a deviation from the acceptable. A mistake is a mistake depending on what we think it is."
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"Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good."
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"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
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"Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another."
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"But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell."
Family
"Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble."
Work
"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier."
Creativity
"The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie."
Perception
"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."
Heart
"Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity."
Evil
"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
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