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Language is a machine for making falsehoods.


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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.



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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.



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We can only learn to love by loving.



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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.



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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.



He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.



Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.



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The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.



I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

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It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.



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What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.



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