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"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"
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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."
Intellectual
"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."
Infinity
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
Act
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Paradise
"He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it."
Words
"Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?"
Nostalgia
"Patriotism, that least discerning of pas."
Politics
"Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,in many words recallingname, renown, events, birthplace.All those glass jewels are best left in the dark.Let not the marble say what men do not.The essentials of the dead man's life--the trembling hope,the implacable miracle of pain, the wonder of sensual delight--will abide forever.Blindly the uncertain soul asks to continuewhen it is the lives of others that will make that happen,as you yourself are the mirror and imageof those who did not live as long as youand others will be (and are) your immortality on earth."
Memory
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Man
"Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread."
Ethics
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