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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
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Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once.
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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.
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Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
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The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good. This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
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Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
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Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?
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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the right answer more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.
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Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.
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Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
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Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
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