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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

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If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

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Live to the point of tears.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

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From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

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Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

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