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"This world is white no longer and it will never be white again."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
"Keep your finger on the pulse of society, take controversies with a grain of salt, lick your finger and then lift it to the wind; always know what is going on, my friend, so this world can never steer you wrong again."
"The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!"
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"The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall."
"He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear."
"Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home."
"Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."
"Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his."
"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky."
"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."
"This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again " unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality."
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