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exist ideas moral seen society upright
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only
passion men ideas
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
coffee army ideas
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army
ideas action contemplation
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.
ideas justice brain
Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.
ideas paris pet
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.
ideas criticism genius
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
giant journalism motion
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
loaf science
To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
attached men-and-women scholars-and-scholarship shame suffer woman
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
bed innocence proven single sleep slept songwriter sound
He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position