"What the hell is an oboe?"
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"The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist."
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"The sky was pure opal now."
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"Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?"
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"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence."
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"Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity."
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"Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."
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"If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers."
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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."
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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
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"Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative."
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"we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others"
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"Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not."
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"To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing."
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"Duty is what one expects from others."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment."
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"I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living."
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"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
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"Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid."
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