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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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