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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

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Syllables govern the world.

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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

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Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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