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“The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is the monster.”
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“All men love live not by what they may intend for their own well-being, but by the love that dwells in others.”
― What Men Live by and Other Tales
― What Men Live by and Other Tales
“My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Humanity will blush to beget when it sees things as they are. Life without the sap of mistakes and deceptions, life ceasing to be a vogue, will find no clemency at the mind's tribunal. But finally, that mind itself will give way: it is only an excuse in the void, as life is only a prejudice.”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
“Mourning is commonly the reaction to the loss of a beloved person or an abstraction taking the place of the person, such as fatherland, freedom, an ideal and so on.”
― The Future of an Illusion
― The Future of an Illusion
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