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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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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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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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Property is organized robbery.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

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