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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Explore Feel Incapable Kill Live Say Tell Worth
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Fear Himself May Reveal Suspense Turned Viable Word
Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Immediate Life Novelist Our Pass Real Wait
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Himself Hold Justify Love Sufficient Theme Writer
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Believe Defend Devotion Feel God Himself One Trust
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Afternoon Always Beautiful English Language Most Summer Word
An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Englishman Hold Natural never Tongue
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Combination Country Every Glory Hate Pill Simplicity Sort
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Astaire Constant Curiosity Immense Life Wonder
And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Great Hope Know Remain Strong Stronger
To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Believe Child Forever Future Hope Love Motivation Trust
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Death Life Precede Predicament
The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Another Feeling Great Man Old Opinion Superiority Think Woman
I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Able Call Imagination Meet People Requirement Rich
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Amount Endless Even History Little Make Take Tradition
If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Fizzle Grease Own Same Sausage Spulter
Excellence does not require perfection.
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Excellence Perfection Require
You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Basis Misunderstanding More Mutual Solution Union Usual
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Afternoon Agreeable Body Ceremony Certain Circumstances Dedicate Health Hour Life Relax Tea Under
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Abbreration Adjective Born Fool Literature Sugar
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Aasidously Artist Book Eliminate Ever Himself Page Present Sought
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Combination Creation Depth Frequent Fruitfully Haunt Inspiration Intently Live Meditation Stay Think World
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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Art Certain Degree Enlargement Experience Illusion Live Make Measure Mind Miraculous Produce Succes Work
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Done Except Game Life Play Thing Win Wonder

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