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"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us."
"And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness."
"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."
"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
"I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that."
"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."
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"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
"One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual."
"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."
"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."
"People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives."
"I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally."
"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
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