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And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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Never find fault with the absent.

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

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The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

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Writers speak stench.

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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

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If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

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Religions get lost as people do.

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