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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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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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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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In fact, I am never wrong.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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