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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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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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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

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Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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