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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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