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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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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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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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