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Georges Bernanos: The world is...

Georges Bernanos: The world is...

The world is eaten up by boredom. . . . It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in . . . . It...

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C P Snow: Advertising degrades the...

C P Snow: Advertising degrades the...

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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C P Snow: The pursuit of...

C P Snow: The pursuit of...

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find...

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C P Snow: Science is the...

C P Snow: Science is the...

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

Anita Loos: I'm furious about...

I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are...

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Willa Cather: I tell you...

Willa Cather: I tell you...

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

Source: The Song of the Lark,...

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Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Carson McCullers: Our hunger for...

Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us [Americans] almost like a national disease. Our literature...

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Carson McCullers: The mind is...

Carson McCullers: The mind is...

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the...

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Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old...

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Diogenes: Man is the...

Diogenes: Man is the...

Man is the most intelligent of the animals -- and the most silly.

Source: In...

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Georg Hegel: The learner always...

Georg Hegel: The learner always...

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in...

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Theodor W Adorno: Intolerance of ambiguity...

Theodor W Adorno: Intolerance of ambiguity...

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Source:...

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Gaston Bachelard: I am a...

Gaston Bachelard: I am a...

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of...

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Gaston Bachelard: There is no...

Gaston Bachelard: There is no...

There is no original truth, only original error.

Source: Fragments of a Poetics of...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Nothing is so...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Source: Culture and Value (ed....

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Epicurus: Justice . ....

Epicurus: Justice . ....

Justice . . . is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Source: 'Principal...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: Nothing endures but...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: Nothing endures but...

Nothing endures but change.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze,...

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Thomas Paine: Tis the business...

Thomas Paine: Tis the business...

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,...

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Charles W Chesnutt: There's time enough,...

Charles W Chesnutt: There's time enough,...

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Source: The Marrow of Tradition,...

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Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

Edna O'Brien: I'm a tuning...

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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