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"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."
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