• Feelings

  He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

  4.2 · 23 votes · 28 reads

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• Virtues

  His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

  4.7 · 6 votes · 29 reads

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• Defects

  I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

  4.3 · 41 votes · 142 reads

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• Feelings

  If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

  4.9 · 58 votes · 47 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  5.0 · 48 votes · 165 reads

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• Feelings

  It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

  4.6 · 58 votes · 188 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

  4.6 · 62 votes · 157 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

  4.1 · 24 votes · 131 reads

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• Various

  Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

  3.6 · 16 votes · 165 reads

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• Various

  People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

  4.8 · 63 votes · 116 reads

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• Feelings

  Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil -or else an absolute ignorance.

  3.3 · 20 votes · 150 reads

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• Time

  Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

  3.8 · 58 votes · 148 reads

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• Time

  Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  3.7 · 64 votes · 4 reads

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• Nature

  We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

  4.1 · 49 votes · 31 reads

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• Art and Culture

  We mustn't complain too much of being comedians, it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed, that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  5.0 · 37 votes · 7 reads

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• Feelings

  When we are not sure, we are alive.

  3.8 · 20 votes · 10 reads

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