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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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