Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
JOHN STEINBECKSocialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.
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All great and precious things are lonely.
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Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
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Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
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Only mediocrity escapes criticism.
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It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
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I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.
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An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.
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I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
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You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.
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