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"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."
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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."
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"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."
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"A man in loss is not a man to trust."
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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."
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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."
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"Know sincere well through the real acts of sincere and not just through its mere words and deceptive actions that end in deep regret before you give your true heart to sincere. So many people have trusted because of sincere but they only saw the mere word and image of sincere and not the real meaning and action of sincere!"
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"They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money."
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"Surrender everything to God."
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"How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into."
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"I'd heard you were dead."I heard you wear a red lace corset, I said matter-of-factly. "But I don't believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about."
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"In violence, we forget who we are."
Violence
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."
Personal
"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
Negative
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."
Behavior
"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
Writing
"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."
Life
"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."
Art
"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
Politics
"You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."
Love
"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."
Character
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