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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
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The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.