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“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.”
― The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
― The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
“I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.”
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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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