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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."

"The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter."
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"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."

"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"

"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."

"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
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