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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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