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Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.


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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.



One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.



Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.



Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.



There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.



Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.



If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.



Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.



To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.



Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.





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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

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Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

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