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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

Bertrand Russell

I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Book Hate Reading
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
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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Desire Live Lonely Love Man Philosophy Sex Woman
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Desire Happiness People Philosophy World
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Happiness Philosophy Satisfaction
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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Death Fear Life Love Philosophy
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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Himself Man Marriage Woman
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Easy Fall In Love Relationship
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Absence Animal Believe Man Philosophy Satisfaction
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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Company Happiness Life Love

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