All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
ALDOUS HUXLEYChronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
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Every man’s memory is his private literature.
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You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
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The more you know, the more you see
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By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom.
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He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
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To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
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