"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."
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"The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further."
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"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."
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"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."
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"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
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"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."
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"If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
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"It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends."
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"As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state."
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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
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"The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence."
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"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
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"There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause."
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"I'm a holy man minus the holiness."
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"The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death."
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"[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while."
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"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got."
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"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror."
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