Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

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The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

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History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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I don't care where I'm from. Nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.

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In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

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Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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