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The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.

Colin Murray Parkes

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Parkes, Colin Murray. Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life. International Universities Press, 1972.

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. "Wordsworth in the Tropics." Do What You Will. Chatto & Windus, 1929.

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In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich

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Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. Harper & Row, 1973, ch. 3.

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

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Moore, George. The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story. The Macmillan Company, 1916, ch. 11.

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It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music.

Joshua Reynolds

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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse VII." 10 Dec. 1776, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "A Miscellany of Men." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by Methuen, 1912 .

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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

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Genet, Jean. Un Captif Amoureux [Prisoner of Love]. Paris: Gallimard, 1986.

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The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.

William Murray, Lord Mansfield

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Somerset v. Stewart

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Murray, William. King's Bench. Somerset v Stewart. 98 ER 499. 22 June 1772.

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Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man-there has never been such another... Who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us", or "The ladies, God bless them!"

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Sayers, Dorothy. "The Human-Not-Quite-Human." Unpopular Opinions. Victor Gollancz, 1946.

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Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

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Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington

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Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

William Norman Ewer

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Ewer, William Norman. "Five Souls." British Nation, 3 Oct. 1914, I. 5.

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Love must not entreat... Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Joseph Schumpeter

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Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

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Forster, E.M. "Notes on the English Character." Abinger Harvest. Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1920.

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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

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West, Rebecca. "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics." The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17. Indiana University Press, 1989. Originally published in The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913.

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