It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWBetter keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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