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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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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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Even things that are true can be proved.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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Genius is born-not paid

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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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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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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