Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
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Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
quote by Theodore Dreiser
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I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
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Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
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Among the forces which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored man is but a wisp in the wind. Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
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