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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
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"I just miss - I miss being anonymous."
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"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
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"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
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"The puzzle that is created by seeing the 'relative' is called worldly life (sansaar)! It would never be this way had one seen the 'Real'."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
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"When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide."
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"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."
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"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."
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"You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you."
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"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."
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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Reflection
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor."
Humor
"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed."
Truth
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
Politics
"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient."
Marriage
"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught."
Integrity
"Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man."
Artistry
"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
Politics
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
Self-Respect
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