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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

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Even things that are true can be proved.

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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A mask tells us more than a face.

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