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Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the people; it cannot do anything but kill the people. No State like that do we want prying into our private lives.

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Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

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