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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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Life is too short to learn German

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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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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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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