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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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