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

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When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

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

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

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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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Dream in a pragmatic way.

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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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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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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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

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