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

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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

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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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Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.

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

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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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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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