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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
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The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
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The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
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There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
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What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte in The Vocation of Man [Die Bestimmung des Menschen] (1800), p. 94 : "You are here, not for idle contemplation of yourself, not for brooding over devout sensations — no, for action you are here; action, and action alone, determines your worth."
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Simone Weil, in The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees