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that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness.
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Influence in society, however, is capital which has to be economized if it is to last.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death, but to avoid unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.”
― Apology
― Apology
“Why on earth people who have something to say which is worth hearing should not take the slight trouble to learn how to make it heard is one of the strange mysteries of modern life.”
― The Lost World
― The Lost World
“that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness.”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
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