It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
AGNES REPPLIERThe worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
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Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another’s attention to their presence.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.
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An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.
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To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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