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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher.
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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
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The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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