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One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Experience Believing Thril Liberation
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The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation

Faith God Belief Miracles
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Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Openness Virtue Good Reason
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Librally Educated Resist Answers
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Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Adolescence Unanswerable Innocence Insolence
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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

Vulgar Portents Prodiies Religious
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Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Think Adultery Filthy habit
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Live Vanity Unreasonable Mortification
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There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless".

Reciprocity Men Women Love
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. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

Cook Imagination Cheerful Mind
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Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Our Hope Off-chance God
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when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Person Implores Reasonable View
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Death Enemy Everything Alright
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Rule Think Life Second
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As we leave the tribal culture of childhood behind, we lose contact with instinctive joy in self-expression: with the creative imagination, spontaneous emotion, and the ability to see the world as full of wonders.

Childhood Joy World Wonders
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Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.

Sticks Stones Names Cry
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In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Sense Art Imagination Truth
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Fashion Speech Privileges Pleasures
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...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Write Character Hate Fear
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Wars Victory Defeat Men
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.

Friendship Philosophy Value Survival
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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger, but faces it head on

Genuine Forgiveness Anger
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If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Painful Criticize Friends Pleasure
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People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.

People Truth Recognize See
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It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.

Hard Occasions Forceful Sublime
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening Talking Powers Human
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Love Linger Longest Hold
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It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

Difficult Woman Grateful Premise
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

Rare Nature Intense Discussion
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Paint Beautiful Pictures Important
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The constant happiness is curiosity.

Constant Happiness Curiosity
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Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

Remember Man Room Leaves
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

Life Places Happened
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

You Parents Real Humilations
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Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

Few People Treasure Hang
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Lifetime spent Hiding one's Erotic truth Cumulative
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Every year, when you're a child, you become a different person.

Every Year Child Become
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Unconventionality My desires Mind Never
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I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.

I Watching Sit Weep
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And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

And Warm Commotion Busy
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Very capacity Self consciousness Self destructive
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The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.

More gratification We found Own geniuses Isolated
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

What sense Superiority Escape reading Some book
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I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I wonder An education A fool
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You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Must remember Woman By nature Feed upon
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Books may well be the only true magic.

Books May well True magic
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The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.

The moon Always jealous Heat The day
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Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Trouble Like love It comes Unannounced
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When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

The weather Love Two elements Can never
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