He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Every expression of human mental life can be understood as a kind of language, and this understanding, in the manner of a true method, everywhere raises new questions.
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