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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

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He loved, beneath all this summer transiency, to feel the earth's spine beneath him; for such he took the hard root of the oak tree to be; or, for image followed image, it was the back of a great horse that he was riding, or the deck of a tumbling ship -- it was anything indeed, so long as it was hard, for he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced and amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

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I prefer men to cauliflowers

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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

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Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

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People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

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You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.

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Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.

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writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.

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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

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It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.

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