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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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