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“Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.”
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“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”
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“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
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“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works”
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“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
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“I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.”
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“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”
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“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”
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“A nation is the same people living in the same place.”
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“There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.”
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“Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.”
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