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"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
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"The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority."
"He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others."
"Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival."
"He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again."
"A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility."
"Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority."
"Remember: If someone's trying to pull you down that means they're already beneath you."
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
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"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity."
"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."
"Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true."
"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
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