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And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.

I observed with assumed innocence that no man was safe from trouble in this world.

My task...is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see. That - and no more - and it is everything.

I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devil—I don't know which.

Admiration was a sentiment unknown to her - first, as always more or less tainted with mediocrity, and next, as being in a way an admission of inferiority. And both were frankly inconceivable to her nature.

And after some more talk we agreed that the wisdom of rats had been grossly overrated, being in fact no greater than that of men.

To see it thwarted opened his eyes to the true nature of the world, whose morality was artificial, corrupt, and blasphemous.

at him I seemed to see again the other one—the father, cast out

outwards, resembled an idol. The Director, satisfied

above—the Council in Europe, you know—mean him to be.' He turned to

It is one of the most detestable habits of a Liliputian mind to credit other people with its own malignant pettiness.

First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.

people are not the product of the exceptional but of the general—of the normality of their place, and time, and race

flag for an instant, so that the princess, who

The great republic has the root of the destructive matter in her. The collective temperament is lawless.

Every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ—Fielding's Tom Jones.

As we look out at the world, the United States not only has the highest level of inequality among the advanced industrial countries, but the level of its inequality is increasing in absolute terms relative to that in other countries.

Power—often military power—was at the origin of these inequities.

so many artists and scientists, the youthful Zweig found school a great bore.

Bette Newboldt, our unappeasable feminist whom, I'm fairly certain, God Himself could not have made happy;

Trevor-Roper never granted Waugh intellectual respect, but did acknowledge that in face-to-face confrontations he could not win, owing to Waugh's superior rudeness.

I've always hated business breakfasts; I believe Oscar Wilde had a point when he said that only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

As Virgil tells us in The Aeneid, fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum. There is no evil swifter than a rumor.

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.