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"It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile."
"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her."
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
"There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured."
"I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
"There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."
"To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments."
"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
"Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears."
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
"Life is too short to be in a hurry."
"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."