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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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