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“A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
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“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
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“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
“Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.”
― Last Words: The Final Journals
― Last Words: The Final Journals
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