"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

Reading, Pride, Books, Enjoyment

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"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

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Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."

Struggle

"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."

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"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."

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"I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now."

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"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

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"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure."

Emotion

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."

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"In this lies Man's true freedom: in determination to worship only the God created by our own love of the good."

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