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"The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything."
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."
"La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas."
"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."
"There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world"well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room? What are you to answer?"
"The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward."
"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting."
"There were the years- years of childhood and innocence- when I had believed that carminative meant- well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life- a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend."
"The fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion."
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