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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

— Louis Kronenberger The Cart and the Horse (1964)

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Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.

In art there are tears that do often lie too deep for thoughts.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

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