"I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad."
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"Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species."
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"Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul."
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"White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak."
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"Nations have their ego, just like individuals."
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"When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
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"The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music."
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"His heart danced upon her movement like a cork upon a tide."
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"The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!"
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"Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions."
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"Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english."
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"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."
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"The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist."
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"He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were a painter he would paint her in that attitude. Her blue felt hat would show off the bronze of her hair against the darkness and the dark panels of her skirt would show off the light ones. Distant Music he would call the picture if he were a painter."
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"To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life."
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"No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse."
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"We are bound together by the sympathy of our antipathies."
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"Let my country die for me."
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"And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father."
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"By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him."
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