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"He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself."
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"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all."

"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters."

"His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines."

"And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice."And when you do find one, observe with care, he said to the intern:"they almost always have crystals in their heart."

"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks."

"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."

"I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come."

"That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness."

"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
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"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."

"Life is two things. Life is morality " life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds " adventure."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

"I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

"You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady."

"Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout."
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