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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

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Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.

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Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

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No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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