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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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I never change, except in my affections.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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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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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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