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"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
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"A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself."
"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself."
"One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered."
"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish."
"Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. 'There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish.'Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. 'Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so."
"Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one."
"Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you."
"One's Use of Life', if turns into worldly selfishness is called adharma (irreligion), and if it turns into spiritual selfishness (towards true self) is called dharma (religion)."
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel."
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
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"He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there."'How about my present?' she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing."Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!"No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use. Not this evening, I'm afraid."All right, Dora, don't you worry. You'll get your two quid all right. We aren't paying by results."He made a clumsy gesture. 'Here, give us that bottle. That bottle off the dressing-table.'"Dora brought it. Ah, that's better. That at least doesn't fail."
"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
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