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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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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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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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