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"We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."
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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
Experience
"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
Chance
"No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible."
Art
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
Work
"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
Morality
"Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement."
Life
"The word in your mouth is anarchy."
Expression
"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."
Work
"In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other."
Death
"When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently."
Man
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