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"But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good."
"It is what we fear that happens to us."
"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
"No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide."
"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful."
"Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character."
"I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived."
"I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living."
"The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
"Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope"
"I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do."
""I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others.""
"The great events of the world take place in the brain."
"People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far."
"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
"He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about."
"I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."
"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously"