"In every parting there is an image of death."
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"There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life."
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"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
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"Never was a miser a brave soul."
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"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
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"Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
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"Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing."
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"Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it."
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"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."
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"Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song."
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"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."
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"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
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"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
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"One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!"
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"The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect."
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"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
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"Association with human beings lures one into self-observation."
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"Religions get lost as people do."
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"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are."
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