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"In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge."

"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"

"A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction."

"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."

"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves."

"If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance."
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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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