The more stitches, the less riches.

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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

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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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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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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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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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