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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

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A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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