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“But isn’t it to feel there’s a God? When you’re alone-quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…”
7 марта 2021

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independence won’t take you safely to the end.’
7 марта 2021

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“‘A man grows old; he feels in himself that radical sense of weakness, of discomfort, which accompanies the advance of age; and, feeling thus, imagines himself merely sick, lulling his fears with the notion that this distressing condition is due to some particular cause, from which, as from an illness, he hopes to recover. Vain imaginings! That sickness is old age; and a horrible disease it is. They say that it is the fear of death and of what comes after death that makes men turn to religion as they advance in years. But my own experience has given me the conviction that, quite apart from any such terrors or imaginings, the religious sentiment tends to develop as we grow older.’”
7 марта 2021

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“But God doesn’t change.” “Men do, though.”
7 марта 2021

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True,” he added, “they might ask for shorter hours. And of course we could give them shorter hours. But would they be any happier? No, they wouldn’t. The experiment was tried, more than a century and a half ago. The whole of Ireland was put on to the four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma; that was all.
7 марта 2021

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“Of course it does. Actual happiness always looks bad in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. Happiness is never grand.”
7 марта 2021

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“But I do,” he insisted. “It makes me feel as though I am… more. More on my own, not a part of something else.”
1 марта 2021

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и, случалось, своим кислым видом портила удовольствие другим.
19 февраля 2021

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Ложь засвидетельствованная стала юридической правдой.
19 февраля 2021

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самые успешные ораторы к правде вовсе и не стремятся? Их цель – вызвать симпатию к своим союзникам и антипатию – к оппонентам.
18 февраля 2021

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