“ Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. ”
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“ A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. ”
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“ The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ”
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“ Sure, it's simple writing for kids…just as simple as bringing them up. ”
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“ A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. ”
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“ We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. ”
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“ We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. ”
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“ The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there - you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. ”
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“ The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there - you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. ”
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“ The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there - you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. ”
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“ The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there - you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. ”
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“ The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. ”
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“ My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ”
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“ Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic. ”
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“ Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic. ”
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“ As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. ”
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“ My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ”
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“ You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. ”
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“ If you see a whole thing — it seems it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ”
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“ Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic. ”
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“ The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next. ”
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“ The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. ”
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“ The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. ”
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