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"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."
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"Riches bring only problems and sorrows to people."
"In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking."
"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."
"A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it."
"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
"God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man."
"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."
"Mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire."
"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."
"What good is money if it can't buy happiness?"
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
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