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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.