"It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools."
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"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"I am certainly an ought and not a must."
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"One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves."
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"But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else."
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"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself."
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"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion."
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"Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again."
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"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent."
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"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."
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"The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature."
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"Truth never was indebted to a lie"
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"There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired."
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"Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven."
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"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."
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"There are no small churches, just small people."
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"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."
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"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."
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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
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