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I keep having books I read in college days get elected for reading in the book club. Which means plenty of Proustian Floods of association and nostalgia. I recall laughing a lot when I first read this but recent rereads of classics have shown me some
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“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
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“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
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