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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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"I am a good toy , guaranteed you will enjoy till you will play with me. and i am quite also . i do not do any complaint as you will throw-out me after get new one.and you do not need to worry. i do not have heart feelings and emotions so i do not feel pain and hurt. I am toy. i am just a toy of other's hand for entertain them."
"For our radically misnamed "materialistic civilization must above all cultivate the love of material, of earth, air, and water, of mountains and forests, of excellent food and imaginative housing and clothing, and of cherishing our artfully erotic contacts between human bodies. Certainly, all these so"called "things are as impermanent as ripples in water, but what life, what love, what energy is there in a perfectly pure abstraction or a totally solid and eternally indestructible rock?"
"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
"Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping."
"If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you."
"It's unfortunate how some people complain about being financially unstable, yet they use their last savings to acquire material things."
"If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?"
"Money may not be able to buy her love but it will definitely make her pay attention."
"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."
"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."
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"Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books."
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."
"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."
"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
"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."
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
"And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know."
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
"What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera."
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