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It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when ot...more

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

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I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

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Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was...more

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

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The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which ...more

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Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of...more

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Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned...more