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Thinking (n.) is mostly the propaganda of a man's appetites.
The Fact (n.) is the toy of men who live and die at leisure.
A Fact (n.) is counterrevolutionary.
The Fact (n.) is counterrevolutionary, base, and unclean for those engrossed in the rapid realization of an extravagant hope.
The Fact (n.) is that under assault in any war on the present.
Equality (n.) is clamored for chiefly in matters in which one cannot hope to obtain excellence.
Equality (n.) is the passion of the masses where freedom is real, but where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
Equality (n.) is clamored for chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a man truly craves but knows he cannot have we must find the field in which he advocates absolute equality. By this test the Communists are frustrated Capitalists.
Compassion (n.) is probably the only antitoxin of the soul. Where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses are relatively harmless.
Oppression (n.) is a process whereby it is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
Escape (n.) is tied to a feeling of freedom, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
The Antichrist (n.) is nothing other than one who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Marriage (n.) is conservative while love-making is radical.
Death (n.) has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
Death (n.) is the state of most men long before they die — a man's heart is a grave long before he is buried. Youth dies, and beauty, and hope, and desire. A grave is buried within a grave when a man is buried.