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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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