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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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