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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
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I'm defeated and I know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Source: What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life (1998) -
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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