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"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."

"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

"A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection."

"In fact, I'll be taking a lot of Cathy Gale with me. I expect that was why I was chosen for the part."
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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."

"At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified."

"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."
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