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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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