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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 That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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