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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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Every woman is a rebel.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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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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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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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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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

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