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To a real child anything will serve as a toy.


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One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.



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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.



Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.

Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.



The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.



Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?

Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?



The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.

The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.



Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.

Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.



The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.

The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.



"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.



Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality.





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