When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can’t make head or tail: you’d make a terrible witness.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The more obsessed with personal identity campus liberals become, the less willing they become to engage in reasoned political debate.
~ Mark Lilla
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Divine madness enters more or less into all our noblest undertakings.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Every expression of human mental life can be understood as a kind of language, and this understanding, in the manner of a true method, everywhere raises new questions.
― Walter Benjamin
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