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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom Hate Kill Love Philosophy Relationship
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
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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Deep Fear Mankind Problem Sin
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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Oneself Virtue
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Man Philosophy
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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
Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Hate Love One Liner Wisdom
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science

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