in Quotes & Aphorisms (Habit)
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "Try to be a little kinder".
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The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Music)
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing.
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Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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