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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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

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