"If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?"
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"There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer."
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
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"The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own."
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"Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty."
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"Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime."
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"In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all."
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"Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
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"The world belongs to the discontented."
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"It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes."
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"Disobedience is man's original virtue."
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"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."
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"If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him."
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"To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still."
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"It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons."
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"If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity."
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"She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it."
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"But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone."
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"Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy."
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"To be good is to be in harmony with one's self."
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