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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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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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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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