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"One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured."
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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Art
"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right."
Character
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
Time
"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
Relationship
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Truth
"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."
Life
"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
Dogs
"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish."
Ethics
"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
Time
"To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring misfortune to him who harbours it. Therefore deceive no one, but rather confess ignorance of what you do not know, and leave each man to devise his own articles of faith for himself."
Truth
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