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Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. [Advice to his guests]
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Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
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Of what significance are the things you can forget.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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Once a person says, ''This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do,'' it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.
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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
Wolkenatlas (2008) -
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Wolkenatlas (2008) -
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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Pain and pleasure, grief and joy, passions and sensations succeed each other, and never all exist at the same time.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
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