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"You are a lawmaker in your own right."

"Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority."

"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."

"What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone's worldly authority. People abuse their acquired authority and consequently loose their right for human birth (manushyapanu). Accept whatever authority one has."

"The devil is a professional in destroying lives, but the problem is that people themselves allow him to destroy their lives."
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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there."

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world."
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