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"What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading."
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"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line."

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident."

"Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.""You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. Theyare my old friends. I have heard you mention them with considerationthese last twenty years at least."
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"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."


"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."


"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."


"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."


"How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."


"Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul."


"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."


"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"


"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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