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When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

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Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

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The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?

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All human history moves towards one great goal

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Does nobody understand?

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Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

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Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

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Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.

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One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

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Tenors get women by the score.

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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

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Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

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