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"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
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"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
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