It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLA man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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