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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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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 critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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