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"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
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"It is the state of the heart within us that determines the nature of the triggers we will pull outside of us."
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"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."
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"The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech."
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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
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"The beauty of one's life would never seize to fade away the moment hate settles in one's heart."
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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
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"Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean."
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"My heart want to feel the touch.Feel the eternal love so much."
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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."
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"Feel, now let your heart be your light; imagination is your way and bliss is your destination."
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"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over."
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"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
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"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
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"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather."
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"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
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"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief."
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"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
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"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
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"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
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