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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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"Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?"
"Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort."
"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
"Using two-dimensional lenses to perceive the multi-faceted world can limit your ability to observe the world more objectively."
"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."
"When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ['Trompe le pied.']"
"Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?"
"We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evaluate our world view. ['Waiting for the pieces to fall into place']"
"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
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"No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square."
"Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them."
"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier."
"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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