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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

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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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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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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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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Life would be dull without them.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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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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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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