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“When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.”
― The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
― The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“The slow and painful transformation of a passionate and narrowly egotistical being into a man who gives himself over wholly to some great work or other that devours him, destroys him, lives in his blood, is a trial every creative being must endure.”
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
“It is probably true that a man remains forever unknown to us and that there is in him something irreducible that escapes us.”
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“Does a country fall into fascism the way a person falls in love? Or, more accurately, in hate?”
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction
― Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction
“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human. And I base this on their conduct, not on what they say. And this means that they have become in themselves moral monsters.”
― I Am Not Your Negro
― I Am Not Your Negro
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