"Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again."
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"I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow."
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"This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?"
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"I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded."
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"Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror."
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"Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul."
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"The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes."
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"Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy."
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"He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage."
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"If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that."
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""I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.""
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"Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation."
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"Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar"
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"I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!"
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"The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk."
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"Giving calls for genius."
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"To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness."
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"Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?"
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"Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]"
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"Tis you, alone, can save, or give my doom."
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