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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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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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"The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it."
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"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."
Mind
"Woman absent is woman dead."
Woman
"A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it."
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"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
Mistake
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
People
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
Perception
"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
Conscience
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
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