"I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it."
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"Men become old, but they never become good."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"Everything that is popular is wrong."
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"Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you."
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"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
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"If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it"
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"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."
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"Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring."
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures."
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"We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype."
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"Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile."
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"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."
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"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."
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"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."
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"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
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"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life."
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"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."
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"Sphinxes without secrets."
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