“Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to time.”
“It is just thinkable that books may some day be written by machinery....”
“I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.”
“Is there anything in the world more graceless, more dishonouring, than to desire a woman whom you will never have?”
“The Communists had gained power and a vast increase of membership partly by appealing to the middle classes against the revolutionaries, but partly also because they were the only people who looked capable of winning the war.”
“One can cure oneself of the not un- formation by memorizing this sentence: A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field.”
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