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"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."
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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."
"If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up!"
"If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers."
"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost."
"Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority."
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
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"A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks."
"The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless."
"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."
"In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames."
"The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever."
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."
"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."
"And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?"
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