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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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One should absorb the color of life.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

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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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