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Good Lord, I don’t know what ‘rights’ a man has! And I don’t know the solution of boredom. If I did, I’d be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull.

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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.
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You’re so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
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