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"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."
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"I just miss - I miss being anonymous."
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"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
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"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
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"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
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"When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide."
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"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
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"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."
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"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."
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"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
Evolution
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Reflection
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"Life is a dead-end street."
Life
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
Democracy
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Democracy
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."
Religion
"A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas."
Education
"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."
Perception
"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore."
Religion
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