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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

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You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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