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"Reality in our century is not something to be faced."
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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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"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."
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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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"We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces."
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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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"He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others."
Empathy
"I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action " even an opinion is a kind of action."
Truth
"They killed him because he was too innocent to live."
Mortality
"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
Life
"The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
Relationship
"We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
Philosophy
"We forget very easily what gives us pain."
Psychology
"Innocence is a kind of insanity."
Psychology
"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
Thought
"When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."
Compassion
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