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"Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life-the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it-can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances."
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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."
"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."
"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."
"No one knows a man better than himself."
"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
"Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect."
"My quest and passionate curiosity are the basis for my love for scientific adventure."
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"It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for."
"Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."
"Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
"Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."
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