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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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