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“Faith is not a series of gilt-edged propositions that you sit down to figure out, and if you follow all the logic and accept all the conclusions, then you have it. It is crumpling and throwing away everything, proposition by proposition, until nothing is left, and then writing a new proposition, your very own, to throw in the teeth of despair ...”
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“The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.”
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“[On horses:] ... they are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.”
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“No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.”
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“Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.”
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“... she never believed that 'nothing could be done.' Something could always be done; that is what people were for.”
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“The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.”
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“One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.”