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"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached."
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"For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it."

"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."

"The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real."

"I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it."

"Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction."

"Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."
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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."


"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."


"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."


"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."


"Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison."
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