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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

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