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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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