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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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