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"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"
Politics

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
People

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
Truth

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
Education

"Advertising is legalized lying."
Advertising

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
Chance

"Nobody read books, but women, parsons and idle people."
Culture

"An idiot child screaming in a hospital. (on George Bernard Shaw)"
Observation

"But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's own life. The one thing trains for the other."
Knowledge

"The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky."
Nature
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"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."
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Personal Development

"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."
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Personal Development

"Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too."
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Personal Development

"Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel."
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Personal Development

"Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo."
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"Ilse was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain."
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Personal Development

"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."
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"Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river."
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Personal Development

"I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured."
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Personal Development

"Pain was a torn piece of paper."
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Personal Development
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