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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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