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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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Only good questions deserve good answers.

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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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There is nothing that art cannot express.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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