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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

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

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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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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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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