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“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”

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“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”

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“Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.”

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“Truth is what works.”

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“Let anyone try to cut a thought across the middle and get a look at its section, and he will see how difficult the introspective observation. . . . is. The rush of the thought is always so headlong that it almost always brings us up at the conclusion before we can arrest it. [Introspective analysis] is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks.”

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“Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.”

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“Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.”

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“A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.”

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“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

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“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.”

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“For life is evil. Two souls are in my breast; I see the better, and in the very act of seeing it I do the worse.”

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