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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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