"There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street."
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"If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains."
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"Most people are other people."
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"To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
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"Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all."
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"It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
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"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
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"And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you."
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"Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations."
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."
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"Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame."
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"Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that."
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"I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering."
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"But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints."
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"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression."
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"The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't."
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"Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears."
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"My job is to help more people have jobs."
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"People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?"
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