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"Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"

"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"
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