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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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