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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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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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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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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 a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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All art is quite useless.

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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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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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