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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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