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"I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
Man
"The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."
Evil
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
Education
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Law
"Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another."
Fear
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
Faith
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
Science
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
God
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
Life
"Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle."
Animals
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