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“Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose ...”
“Gentlemen, said Earl Lavender, with perfect complacence, it becomes you to make a charge of madness against me. I told my friend Lord Brumm a little ago that you have no minds, and I am convinced o...”
“Youre young, and like anything new. Its change you want. Im middle-aged, and theres nothing staler to me than change. Constant comfort and little luxuries as regular as the clock are fresher than c...”
“Now I have two immediate objects in view. The first is to devote myself to the evolutionary life more thoroughly than I have yet doneto think, speak, do nothing but what is evolutionary. Hitherto I...”
“Ill be hanged if I can understand how it concerns Evolution to get us out of a mere scrape.Out of all kinds of scrapes, my dear Brumm, Evolution has the power to deliver us. There is no conceivable...”
