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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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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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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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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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