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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
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"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
"A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes."
"It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain."
"For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money."
"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed."
"Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?"
"All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal."
"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."
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