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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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