"All things truly wicked start from innocence."
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"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
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"Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact."
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"From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first."
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"It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol."
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"Have faith in God; God has faith in you."
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"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."
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"Every true genius is bound to be naive."
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"No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is."
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"Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to."
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"I write to understand as much as to be understood."
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"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."
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"Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours."
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"Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work."
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"I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect."
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
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"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
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"America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing."
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"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."
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"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
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