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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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