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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

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It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

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There is nothing in religion but fiction.

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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

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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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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.

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I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

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The harder I work the more I live.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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