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I guess some things never change.
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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right.
God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
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For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
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If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Where wit hath any mixture of raillery, it is but calling it banter, and the work is done.
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Don't let anyone tell you what you are ever, that way you never run the danger of becoming anything but what you believe in.
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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
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Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
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Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.
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