"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not."
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"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."
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"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good."
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"I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath."
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"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."
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"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
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"One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease."
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"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."
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"We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority."
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"One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming."
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"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
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"A friend is worth all hazards we can run."
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"By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own."
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"The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind."
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"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
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"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."
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"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."
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"The wavering mind is but a base possession."
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"The best of seers is he who guesses well."
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"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."
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