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These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

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What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

Advertising, Constant, Modern, Standards, Virtue
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The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

Passion, Emotion, Intensity, Interest, Involved

I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.

Attitude, Disapprove, House, Life And Death, Modern, Simplest

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them - that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

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we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

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In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interests; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.

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