“ The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. ”
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“ And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires. ”
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“ Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ”
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“ Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ”
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“ The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. ”
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“ If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be — not understood, but divined. ”
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“ Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ”
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“ Woman's great intellectual task is teaching the language. The grammarians and their substitutes, school-teachers and professors, fancy that they are the masters of language, and that, without their intervention, men's language would perish in confusion and incoherence… ”
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“ The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. ”
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“ Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ”
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“ Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ”
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“ The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. ”
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“ Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. ”
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“ Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. ”
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“ Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ”
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“ Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ”
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“ Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ”
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“ If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be — not understood, but divined. ”
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“ The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. ”
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“ Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him. ”
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“ Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. ”
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“ We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. ”
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“ The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. ”
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“ Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. ”
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“ Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery. ”
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“ The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws. ”
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“ Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ”
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