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A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.
[ Fanatics and Fanaticism ]
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
[ Music ]
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An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support
[ Atheism ]
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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
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Every man's memory is his private literature.
[ Memory ]
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
[ Experience ]
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
[ Experience ]
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Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
[ Facts ]
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
[ Goodness ]
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I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
[ Fame ]
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
[ Fiction ]
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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
[ Work ]
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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
[ Mistakes ]
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Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
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Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
[ Apathy ]
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Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
[ Ignorance ]
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
[ Prejudice ]
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
[ Lust ]
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
[ Proverbs ]
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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
[ Fathers and Sons ]
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
[ Pleasure ]
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
[ Speed ]
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
[ Solitude ]
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The only completely consistent people are the dead.
[ Consistency ]
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
[ Morality ]
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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
[ Talent ]
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
[ Self-improvement ]
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
[ Self-confidence ]
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
[ Popularity ]
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
[ Travel and Tourism ]
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We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
[ Genius ]
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.
[ Tragedies ]
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Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
[ Words ]
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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
[ Truth ]
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