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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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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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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

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Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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