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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.

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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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To be premature is to be perfect

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