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"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
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"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
"A miracle is never perfect when it happens, there are always little disappointments. But once it's gone for good and nothing can change it, memory could make it perfect and then it would never change. If I can just call it to life now, won't it always stay the same? Won't it stay with me as long as I live?"
"What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative."
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
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"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
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