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"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."

"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means."
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"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."


"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."


"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."


"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."


"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."


"Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy."
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