Quotes 761 till 780 of 1615.
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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual... making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
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Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others.
Source: Letters (1892) -
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
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Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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