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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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