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“The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.”
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“... owning capital is not a productive activity.”
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“... I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty — not to be blinded by it.”
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“... one of the amusements of the Imperial soirées, before the Emperor entered the salon, was to see the Empress turn her ear round, for, by a movement of the muscles of the jaw, she possessed the singular power of making her ear turn round of itself, almost in a circle. I never heard of anyone except Marie Louise who could do this.”
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“A disturbing possibility exists that the television experience has not merely blurred the distinctions between the real and the unreal for steady viewers, but that by doing so it has dulled their sensitivities to real events. For when the reality of a situation is diminished, people are able to react to it less emotionally, more as spectators.”
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“The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.”
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“Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.”
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“Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.”