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| Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. | | Uncategorized | |
| Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action. | | Uncategorized | |
| Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. | | Uncategorized | |
| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness | | Belief | |
| The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much | | Uncategorized | |
| The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. | | Uncategorized | |
| The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development | | Future | |
| The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. | | Uncategorized | |
| The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future | | Mind | |
| The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. | | Uncategorized | |
| The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind | | Crime | |
| The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas | | Uncategorized | |
| The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free. | | Uncategorized | |
| The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. | | Uncategorized | |
| The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. | | Uncategorized | |
| The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. | | Uncategorized | |
