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- Gentleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
He is every other inch a gentleman.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
- Dark Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Express
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- Nov 07, 2020
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
- Different Parts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write books to find out about things.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
- Nov 07, 2020
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
- Nov 07, 2020
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
- Nov 07, 2020
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
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