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"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."
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"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us."
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
"Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing."
"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"
"Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together."
"When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity " that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."
"Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever."
"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."
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