We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.Cyril Connolly
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
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Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave
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