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Genius is born-not paid

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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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

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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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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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