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"For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."

"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."

"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."

"The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't."
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"Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual."

"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."

"In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief."

"Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship."

"For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."

"The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations."

"In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events."

"The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members."
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