"If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things."
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"A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection."
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"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."
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"Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way."
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""There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.""
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"What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land."
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"One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age."
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"Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!"
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"How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"
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"To give requires good sense."
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"The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue."
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"Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new."
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"If you decide that you are making love to have a child then you are to prepare. Prepare physiologically, spiritually, and know that you have enough money to give him what you have to give him."
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"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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"When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible."
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"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope."
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"The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen."
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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
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"What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the good thing about science: It’s true whether or not you believe in it. That’s why it works."
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"Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages."
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