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Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

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Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

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Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

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The philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, but its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres.

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The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

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For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

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I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

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...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

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Progress is the mother of problems.

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Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

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Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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