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Very strange! he said to himself, vacantly. It's like a scene in a novel—it's like nothing in real life. He

never mind about his genius, Mr. Pesca. We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.

the window, turned back again into the room

The solemn servant was far too highly trained to betray the slightest satisfaction.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.

It was his motto that one lived best by the hidden life—bene vixit qui bene latuit.

Plato's reduction of political evolution to a sequence of monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, and dictatorship found another illustration in the history of Rome.

the state arose as an indispensable instrument for the regulation of classes, the protection of property, the waging of war, and the organization of peace.

A catholic and far-sighted theory of the adjustment of the conflicting factors of life is philosophy.

Doubt is not a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.

a barbarian was a man content to believe without reason and to live without liberty.

other things." He filled her cup. "Jasmine," he said. "Tastes

A funny yet interesting read, Will Self knowa his stuff and must do a lot of deep research.

But once more, here I am - confronted with the counter-intuitive notion that intelligence is no protection against strange beliefs.

Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.

Another friend of mine defines writing as: Torturing your characters for fun and profit.

Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.

When thought is closed in caves, then love shall show its root in deepest hell.

He who will not bend to Love must be subdu'd by Fear.

As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius

The Jewish and Christian Testaments are an original derivation from the Poetic Genius.

I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth.

What happened to your lip, by the way?' 'I was punched in the face by a French philosopher.