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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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