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Extraordinary creature! So close a

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
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Order and simplification are the

Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
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I have always been an

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
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Solitude gives birth to the

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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Every reasonable human being should

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
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We, when we sow the

We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
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The meeting in the open

The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.
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Human reason needs only to

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
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What is uttered is finished

What is uttered is finished and done with.
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Opinions cannot survive if one

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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