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“Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.”
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“... there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.”
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“The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.”
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“Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.”
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“The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.”
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“They try to kill, or silence everyone who says they know how to save the world. You might be one who does know, but you're not really in any danger, unless you tell them that you know. That's how they figure that you're nuts, you tell them that you know how to save the world. Then they'll get you, unless you're particularly clever about it, and say that you're a poet, songwriter, writer, comedian, storyteller, artist, or whatever. Then they will tolerate you, because they'll just think you're controllable, because you obviously still care about money. And when you still care about money, you're part of the world. You don't really want to save it — you're OK.”
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“Desire is boundless, and boundlessness frightens us.”
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“The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.”