The supreme vice is shallowness.
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Society
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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To communicate oneself is Nature; to receive a communication as it is given is Culture.
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All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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A look which must be called the "banker's look", and that has something of vultures and lawyers: it is avid and indifferent, light and dark, brilliant and obscure.
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In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
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The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty.
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There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
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