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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

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