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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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