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"So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence."
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"Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?"
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"The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol."
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"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel."
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"So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence."
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"Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence."
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"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
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"Farewell, fair cruelty."
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"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
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"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
Love
"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
Life
"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
Society
"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
Romance
"These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision."
Philosophy
"Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive."
Life
"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."
Desire
"Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities."
Philosophy
"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."
Politics
"Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived."
Survival
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