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there is a natural tribal hos...

there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.

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That's how vile i am! I live ...

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

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... he felt himself to be one...

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

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They are universal places, li...

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

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Art is a kind of artificial m...

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

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Trains induce such terrible a...

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.

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Not to have been born is undo...

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

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All artists dream of a silenc...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

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We need a moral philosophy wh...

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

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The entry of a child into any...

The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

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Every human soul has seen, pe...

Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light, being pure ourselves.

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The most essential and fundam...

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

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Our actions are like ships wh...

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 civil...

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.

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All art is the struggle to be...

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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Intense mutual erotic love, l...

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

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When does one ever know a hum...

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

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All art deals with the absurd...

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

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Education doesn’t make you ha...

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

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The bereaved cannot communica...

The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.

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