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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."

"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."

"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."

"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."

"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."

"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
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