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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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