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[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible H. L. Mencken More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much P. T. Barnum Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return James Russell ... |
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| ... man has been blackened out like a lie; when friends fade into ghosts, and the foundations of the world fail; then when the man, believing in nothing and in no man, is alone in his own nightmare, then the great individualistic motto shall be written over him in avenging irony. ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... and slept for tens of thousands, as I have, and he will say the same. It is against Time that he fights; he who, believing in nothing beyond, will inherit nothing, as Bastin says; he to whom Time has brought nothing save a passing, blood-stained greatness, and triumph ending ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... public opinion, wavering and varying, sceptical and credulous, wicked and devout, a braggart and a true man, enthusiastic and ironical, and always convinced while believing in nothing. Foreigners, our anti-types, as Mme. Abel called them, the stubborn English and the heavy Germans, regard us with a certain amazement mingled ... |
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