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How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?


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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.



We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.



I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.



We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.



I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.



The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.



I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.



I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.



My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.



At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.





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People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

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If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin.

If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin.



When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.



PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

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Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them".

Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them".



Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.



Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.



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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.




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