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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

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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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The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

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Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

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There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

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

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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

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He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

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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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