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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
[ America ]
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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.
[ Novelty ]
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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
[ Dreams ]
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
[ Government ]
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
[ Age and Aging ]
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
[ Rain ]
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
[ Religion ]
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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
[ Education ]
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
[ Innocence ]
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