Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

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