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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context,
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
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The Writeris either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
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Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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