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"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."
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"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."
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"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live."
Art
"Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war."
War
"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
Lie
"If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined."
Being
"Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
Lie
"Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time."
Time
"Man is the inventor of stupidity."
Man
"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."
Intelligence
"Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness."
Life
"Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him."
Morality
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