one enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift
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This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.
~ Marcel Proust
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All reality is a game. Physics at its most fundamental, the very fabric of our universe, results directly from the interaction of certain fairly simple rules, and chance; the same description may be applied to the best, most elegant and both intellectually and aesthetically satisfying games.
~ Iain Banks
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The over-bearing insolence of ignorant men, who had arisen to sudden wealth by successful gambling, made men of true gentility of mind and manners blush that gold should have power to raise the unworthy in the scale of society.
~ Charles MacKay
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
~ Audre Lorde
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
~ Roger Scruton
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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