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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
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  2. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
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  3. John le Carré _ Call for the Dead

    They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.
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  4. Slavoj Žižek _ The Puppet and the Dwarf: The

    My claim here is not merely that I am a materialist through and through, and that the subversive kernel of Christianity is accessible also to a materialist approach; my thesis is much stronger: this kernel is accessible only to a materialist approach-and vice versa: to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go through the Christian experience.
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  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.
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  6. James Baldwin _ The Fire Next Time

    It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
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  8. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden

    Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
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  9. Henry David Thoreau _ Familiar Letters

    What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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  10. Kathy Acker _ In Memoriam to Identity

    I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.
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  11. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.
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  12. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
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