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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment… What if history was not a reasonable citizen, but a madman full of paranoid guile? — Invisible Man

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity — Society of the Spectacle

The spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension … leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able […]

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.

It’s like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.

What is the use being a big man if you are wrong?

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.