There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
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To say ''I accept'' in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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