Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Henry Louis Mencken
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth
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An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be
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The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly swatter
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A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation
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Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess
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Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt
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The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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