"In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor."
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"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it."
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"Some things are too important to be taken seriously."
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"Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."
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"I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots."
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"Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
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"A flower blossoms for its own joy."
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"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame."
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"Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked"
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"No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."
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"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
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"For one moment our lives met, our souls touched."
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"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life."
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"We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks"
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"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me."
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"You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all."
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"Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern."
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