We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. Fragments
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy? Studies in Pessimism
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism. The Karamazov Brothers
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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