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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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