“There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
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“Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it.”
“Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.”
“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become.”
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”
“Every atheist is an idolater — unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect.”
“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science.”
“Prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.”
“What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium.”
“A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror.”
“Men of the most brilliant intelligence can be born, live and die in error and falsehood.”
“If a captive mind is unaware of being in prison, it is living in error.”
“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”
“A Pharisee is someone who is virtuous out of obedience to the Great Beast.”
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.”