One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Louis Kronenberger
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  1. The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

  2. Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.

  3. Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

  4. Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

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