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I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

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Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

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What counts in the end is what the government does.

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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

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He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

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Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

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There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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One attacks those who possess things that one does not possess. The attack is all the more savage because the one who attacks is destitute and the one who is attacked is well provided. The one who attacks always considers himself to be in the position of legitimate offense.

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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

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